Re: [orca-list] Initial ORCA Question

[Christopher Gray <chris bayareadigital us>]

Kenny:

Thanks.  I'll upgrade and then see what happens.  Didn't realize this was so far 
out-of-date.

CHris

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Kenny Hitt 
wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Where did you get your instructions?  There isn't an orca.conf.
> Orca settings are stored in files in your ~/.orca directory.
>
> The first thing is to upgrade to Ubuntu 7.4.  The Gnome and Orca in 6.2 is over a year old.
>
> The error you are getting refers to the X display, not the Braille display.
> You probably typed the orca command in a text console instead of in a gnome-terminal.
>
>          Kenny
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 01:25:52PM -0700, Christopher Gray wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I have UBUNTU Linux 6.2 installed on a Dell server.  Using apt-get, what appears
> > to be the most recent version of ORCA is installed.  Finally, brltty is
> > installed and working in console sessions with a Vario 40.
> >
> > I have two questions:  1.  As instructed after updating ORCA, I went to have a
> > look at /etc/orca.conf.  It's not there, and there's no orca directory there
> > that might contain orca.conf.  Where should it be, then?
> >
> > 2.  Even before using apt-get today, I had ORCA and it runs when I boot the
> > system.  But, no braille is available when running ORCA.  One possible hint is
> > that when I run a command like:
> >
> >       orca -v  or
> >       orca -e braille
> >
> > I get a message saying GtkWarning:  could not open display.
> >
> > Does this mean the braille display?
> >
> > Thanks for any advice.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
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