Re: Gnopernicus and gnome programs

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi Thomas:

Thomas Ward wrote:

> Hi bill,
> I just tried passing the export gtk_modules variable  to gnome terminal
> fired up gaim and I got absolutely nothing out of gaim.
> What am I doing wrong? I get nothing out of that app.
>  
Hmm, "works for me".  Is there a chance you could check the output of 
gaim to the terminal window when it launches, to confirm that libgail 
and atk-bridge are both being loaded successfully?

thanks

Bill

> On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 21:19 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
>  
>
> > HI Cody:
> >
> > The problems you are having are related but have slightly different root 
> > causes.  In order for gnopernicus (or any Gnome accessibility client) to 
> > work properly, the application must implement the necessary 
> > accessibility interfaces and load a "bridge" through which it 
> > communicates to the AT-SPI accessibility framework.  KDE applications 
> > don't yet do this, although the KDE team has been working to support 
> > AT-SPI in the KDE 4 timeframe.  For best results with Mozilla, you'll 
> > need one of the 'Sun builds' of Mozilla, which are periodically 
> > published to this mailing list and can be downloaded in source code form 
> > and I believe as RPMs for some platforms as well.
> >
> > For Gaim, things should work OK for you if you first set a special 
> > GTK_MODULES variable in your environment.  There is a distinction that 
> > can be made between applications that base their entire user interface 
> > on gtk+, and those that depend on more of the Gnome libraries.  at 
> > startup if assistive technology support is needed, but the second type 
> > of program gets notified automatically "Gtk+-only" or "pure Gtk+" 
> > programs (including Gaim) do not.  So to make Gaim work you need to set
> > GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge from the command line (the syntax depends on 
> > your setup, probably either "setenv GTK_MODULES gail:atk-bridge" or 
> > "export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge" will do it, then start 'gaim' from 
> > the same command line.
> >
> > You may find more useful information you want in the appendices to the 
> > Gnome 2.10 Accessibility Guide:
> > http://gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.10/
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> > Hurst, Cody wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Hello I'm having some issues with gnopernicus. I've done my research and
> > > google reports that the instant messenger GAIM works with gnopernicus but
> > > when i truied to use it, gnopernicus will not read anything. Evolution seems
> > > to work fine, but KMail does the same thing as gaim, reads nothing. I can't
> > > get to the menu bar, if there is one, and I can't read anything in it. I'm
> > > also having issues with Mozilla web browser, and I've also tried conqueror.
> > > I can't use anything other then evolution email really. now I haven't
> > > upgrade gnopernicus 0.10.4 on my SuSe 9.3 system to v 0.11.4 but I hope it
> > > has some improvments. its really a great project they shoujld keep working
> > > on.
> > >
> > > Thanx,
> > >
> > > Cody
> > >
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