Hi Cody: There could be several problems happening here. If speech isn't working, you might need to debug that first. Here's a fast pass I made on the WIKI for debugging speech (please let me know of changes you think would be helpful to make it clearer - I wrote it at night when I was kind of tired): http://live.gnome.org/Orca/GnomeSpeech If the goal is to start Orca when you log in, however, you have a couple of options. One is to tell your Linux distribution to not bring the graphical login up when it boots. The method for doing this unfortunately varies by distribution. With this option, you can add orca to your ~/.xinitrc file and then start the graphical desktop using xinit. Another option is to bring up the System->Preferences->Sessions application (also known as gnome-session-properties from the command line) and add orca as a startup program. In either case, you might actually want to point to a script that starts orca - that way you can do some pre-run cleanup of stuff if needed (e.g., kill synthesis drivers that might be hung and such). Attached is a script that does some of this pre-run cleanup. I'm not really advocating its use too widely, though, because Orca should not rely upon this kind of thing for proper behavior. Instead, it should be able to gracefully recover from bad things as much as possible or at least give you an informative message about what's causing it pain. But, it should at least be able to help you get going. Will On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 12:12 -0700, C-DOG wrote:
hi will, but what is a way to avoid this? I mean, running orca from the terminal probably wont' do the same thing will it? I have tried starting orca from the gnome terminal and minimising the terminal, and using it but get no speech. cody ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM> To: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:14 AM Subject: Re: tarting orcaHi Cody: This looks like it might be related to a GTK+ crasher: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326362 The main culprit that makes it happen seems to be the run dialog. If you can avoid doing that until the crasher is fixed by the gtk folks, then things might go better for you. Hope this helps, Will On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:38 -0700, C-DOG wrote:actually I can get through the setup, if I type orca in the terminal then it will say welcome to orca. this does not happen in the run dialogue in the gui of gnome it just crashes the pannel.cody ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Pedersen To: 'Orca screen reader developers' Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 1:44 PM Subject: RE: tarting orca Hello Cody, I have opened a terminal and typed orca-setup I get a prompt asking me which voice I want. I can't quite understand the 2 options, so I select one, then i am asked for speak echo charactors, I say Y for yes, after this I get no speech, what is going wrong? I have managed to get this far. I still can't get out of a terminal window, is there another type of setup I need to do? After you finish orca-setup you will not have speech until you type orca. What happens if you type orca in the terminal prompt? Mike ______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Orca-list mailing list Orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list _______________________________________________ Orca-list mailing list Orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list_______________________________________________ Orca-list mailing list Orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list_______________________________________________ Orca-list mailing list Orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
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