Re: [GOK] problems

[Francesco Fumanti <francesco fumanti gmx net>]

Hi Jim,


As you are using a trackball, I assume that you are able to move the pointer and do not require the gui grabbing feature of GOK. 

If all you need is an onscreen keyboard to do the typing stuff, onboard might fill your requirements. It is the default onscreen keyboard of Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu Karmic) and is available out of the box at the login screen and in the desktop session. (To find it at the login screen, you have to click on the vetruvian man icon at the bottom of the screen; to make it appear in the desktop session, you can open the Main Menu control panel in System -> Preferences and unhide the Universal Access menu.)

Onboard does not have word prediction yet, but it is under development and I hope it to be available for Ubuntu 10.04. 


I am aware that my reply does not exactly respond to what you asked for, but I hope that it can at least get you going until the problems with GOK are solved.


Cheers, 

Francesco 

Jim Daly wrote:
> hello
>  i'm trying to use gok. i am disabled with ALS. the problems i'm 
> experiencing are:
>    sticky keys don't work on the osk. they do work on physical keyboard 
> and if i push a sticky key on the physical keys it works, for that press 
> only, on the osk.
>
>    if i use word prediction after a couple of gok freezes and i have to 
> kill it.
>
> i am using gok ver 2.24.0 and CentOS 5.2 which is equivalent to red hat 
> enterprise 5.2. my sysadmin has tried gok 2.29.91 on fedora 12 and 
> ubuntu, i don't know the ver, with no luck. i am using a trackball, 
> eventully i want to use opengazer.
>
> if i start gok on comand line i get msgs:
>
> GTK Accessibility Module initialized
> Bonobo accessibility support initialized
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: Error registering GOK as a server: not listed
> /dev/js0: No such file or directory
> Xlib:  extension "XEVIE" missing on display ":0.0".
> ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
> Warning: AT-SPI error: pre method check: add: Unknown CORBA exception 
> id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0'
>
> ** (gok:9599): CRITICAL **: cspi_object_unref: assertion 
> `accessible->ref_count > 0' failed
>
> ** (gok:9599): CRITICAL **: cspi_object_unref: assertion 
> `accessible->ref_count > 0' failed
>
> ** (gok:9599): CRITICAL **: cspi_object_unref: assertion 
> `accessible->ref_count > 0' failed
>
> ** (gok:9599): CRITICAL **: cspi_object_unref: assertion 
> `accessible->ref_count > 0' failed
>
> ** (gok:9599): CRITICAL **: cspi_object_unref: assertion 
> `accessible->ref_count > 0' failed
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: EMPTY Node name: []
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: EMPTY Node name: []
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: EMPTY Node name: []
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: EMPTY Node name: []
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: GOK: maximum search depth exceeded.
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: GOK: maximum search depth exceeded.
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: EMPTY Node name: []
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: EMPTY Node name: []
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: EMPTY Node name: []
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: EMPTY Node name: []
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: GOK: maximum search depth exceeded.
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: GOK: maximum search depth exceeded.
>
> ** (gok:9599): CRITICAL **: cspi_object_unref: assertion 
> `accessible->ref_count > 0' failed
>
> ** (gok:9599): CRITICAL **: cspi_object_unref: assertion 
> `accessible->ref_count > 0' failed
>
> ** (gok:9599): CRITICAL **: cspi_object_unref: assertion 
> `accessible->ref_count > 0' failed
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: GOK: maximum search depth exceeded.
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: GOK: maximum search depth exceeded.
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: GOK: maximum search depth exceeded.
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: GOK: maximum search depth exceeded.
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: GOK: maximum search depth exceeded.
>
> ** (gok:9599): WARNING **: GOK: maximum search depth exceeded.
>
> ** (gok:9599): CRITICAL **: cspi_object_unref: assertion 
> `accessible->ref_count > 0' failed
>
> ** (gok:9599): CRITICAL **: cspi_object_unref: assertion 
> `accessible->ref_count > 0' failed
>
> ** (gok:9599): CRITICAL **: cspi_object_unref: assertion 
> `accessible->ref_count > 0' failed
>
> any ideas on what i should try?
>
> thanks
> Jim Daly
>
>
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