Re: Starting Gnopernicus Within Gnome (Was Re: Now Getting Braille OutputFrom Gnopernicus)

["Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Thanks so much for reposting that information. I'm going to make the changes
right now.


----- Original Message -----
From: John J. Boyer <director chpi org>
To: Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>
Cc: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 2:04 AM
Subject: Starting Gnopernicus Within Gnome (Was Re: Now Getting Braille
OutputFrom Gnopernicus)


> Hello,
>
> Below is the relevant part of a message from Bill haneman on starting
> Gnopernicus from within Gnome. This seems to work well for me, and
> obviates the need to mess around with .xinitrc, which I know from
> experience can hang your entire system.
>
>  On 13 May 2003, Bill Haneman
> wrote:
>
> > John:
> >
> > As Christopher said, you should not start gnopernicus before starting
> > GNOME (i.e. gnome-session).
> >
> > As far as I know, your ~/.xinitrc file need only contain one line,
> >
> > "exec gnome-session"
> >
> > in order to start GNOME.  I do not know whether an immediate invocation
> > of "exec gnopernicus" afterwards would cause a race condition or not;
> > perhaps a 'sleep' in between would be advisable.  The "gnome-session"
> > call won't return until you quit GNOME, which is why it needs to be
> > "exec"'ed instead of just placed in the script.
> >
> > There's a GUI in gnome for adding startup programs.  Unfortunately there
> > isn't a proper command-line or script version of this (yet).  But you
> > can manually edit the session file:
> >
> > 1) create directory ~/.gnome2 if it doesn't exist yet
> > 2) create file ~/.gnome2/session-manual
> > 3) contents of session-manual file:
> >
> > <blank line>
> > [Default]
> > num_clients=1
> > 0,RestartStyleHint=3
> > 0,Priority=60
> > 0,RestartCommand=gnopernicus
> >
> >
> >
> > I hope that helps.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Well, at least I am getting something on my Alva 320 display. When I
start
> > > Gnome and Gnopernicus the displaly shows "Welcome to Gnopern".
Pressing
> > > the keys on the front panel of the 320 has no effict. Brltty continues
to
> > > work with the Braille Lite 40 in port 1. I can read on the screen that
> > > that Braille initialization was successful.
> > >
> > > In my .xinitrc file I have srcore -p2 just before      exec
> > > $GARNOME/bin/gnome-session . When I tried replacing "srcore -p2: with
just
> > > "gnopernicus" it appeared to crash the system. I had to reboot - for
the
> > > first time in two months. Moreover, I had to press reset to do it.
> > >
> > > I hope these results will help with debugging. They are encouraging,
and
> > > I'm ready to do further testing as soon as I or someone figures out
the
> > > next step.
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > >
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