Re: [orca-list] Orca and mag

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Jan:

The way Orca handles magnification is similar to the way it handles 
speech and braille -- rather than doing it directly, it depends upon a 
system service for the support.

In the case of magnification, Orca depends upon gnome-mag, which 
automatically started via Bonobo activation when Orca asks for it.  The 
problem you are experiencing is usually an indication that Bonobo 
activation isn't working or gnome-mag is failing to start due to 
dependencies not being properly set up on your machine.

To debug this, you might first try to run the 'magnifier' command by 
itself in a command line shell.  If it can't start, then that's probably 
the source of the problem.  If it does start, then you might look at 
your /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_Magnifier.server file to see if there 
is anything odd in there.

Will

Jan Buchal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried on several machines orca with gnome-mag but it does'nt work.
> Orca shows this traceback:
>
> $ orca
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 857, in loadUserSettings
>     mag.init()
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/mag.py", line 753, in init
>     "GNOME/Magnifier/Magnifier")
> GeneralError
>
> Could not initialize connection to magnifier.
>
>
> the gnome mag is from debian or fron svn trunk.