Hi John,One option that should work: using BrlTTY, run 'startx' to start your X/GNOME session, and then still from your text console, 'gnopernicus --enable-braille --braille-port=X --braille-device=<name>' to launch it. Once you've done this once, those settings will persist for that user (in the ~/.gconf database) and you'll only need 'gnopernicus' in the future.
You of course must also set the gconf accessibility flag, which can be done with the attached script. Turn the gconf database key on with 'gnome-accessibility on'; find out its state with 'gnome-accessibility'. Thanks to Simon Bates of UToronto for this script.
Regards, Peter Korn Sun Accessibility team
I must admit you got me on that one. I'm not a braille display user, and am not quite sure of the logistics of getting braille setup in gnopernicus. Hth. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John J. Boyer" <director chpi org> To: "Thomas Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net> Cc: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak charter net>; <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 3:31 PM Subject: Re: latest procedures for setting up gnopernicusThat sounds easy for people who use speech, but what about those of us who are deaf as well as blind and must use braille? Is it still that easy? John On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 02:11:56PM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote:Hi Cheryl, The dialog box that turns accessibility on is accessible for the mostpart.Once and a while I do have problems finding the button to logout toexceptthe change, but other wise it works. It isn't really all that difficult these days to get a workinggnopernicus.1. Install a stable Gnome 2.8 set of packages for your distro with gnopernicus packages. 2. Start x and use alt+f2 to get the run dialog. 3. Type gnopernicus followed by enter. 4. Assuming there are no critical errors gnopernicus will start talking using festival, and a dialog will appear prompting you to activate accessibility. 5. Answer the questions on the dialog, logout of Gnome, and back in. 6. Repeat steps 2 and 3. That is all there is to it. If you want a stable branch of gnopernicusandgnome. Otherwise if you want newer stuff you will have to grab them from gnome.org and compile the updated packages. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak charter net> To: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 12:49 PM Subject: Re: latest procedures for setting up gnopernicusOk kenny, but if accessibility isn't enabled yet, am I even going tobeable to read the dialog box. Can I still use gconftool-2 to do that beforehand. and don't I need to set up for brltty beforehand with gconftool also? Thanks. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 3/4/2005-- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 3/4/2005 _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list-- John J. boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer Computers to Help People, Inc. www.chpi.org 6033 Monona Drive, suite 205; Madison, WI 53716 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 3/4/2005
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