Re: [orca-list] Remote access to gnome, still looking for a solution

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Thanks for this. I haven't had the chance to test the module out, but if
it does as you say it should be ideal. My thought is that orca would be
run on the remote machine, with speech-dispatcher as the server locally,
and so all speech should be produced locally whilst orca is accessing
the at-spi and such like on the same machine (the remote one). Hopefully
I haven't missed anything in this which would stop this actually working
as a solution.

From
Michael Whapples
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 15:40 +0100, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> Michael Whapples wrote:
> > How possible might it be to have orca use speech-dispatcher on a
> > different system, set per user (eg. is there a setting which can
> > be altered in orca user settings to allow the IP of the
> > speech-dispatcher to be used, and this might mean the
> > individuals who use orca remotely need to always use the same machine,
> > or may be it could be set by a script run on login).
>
> This is technically possible, but this is currently not configurable.  I
> will add this to Speech Dispatcher python library.  If you are
> interested in testing it, you can try using the attached module instead
> of the module installed from the python-speechd package.  You will need
> to do the following steps:
>
> Invoke:
>
> python -c 'import speechd; print speechd.__file__'
>
> This will tell you where the speechd library is installed.  On my system
> it prints "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/speechd/__init__.pyc", so
> the directory is "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/speechd".
>
> Copy the attached file to this directory (you will need root privileges)
> replacing the original file of the same name.  Then set the environment
> variable SPEECHD_HOST to the IP address or hostname of the machine where
> Speech Dispatcher is running:
>
> export SPEECHD_HOST=hostname
>
> Then run orca within the same shell (terminal window) and Orca should
> speak to the remote Speech Dispatcher host.  Please note, that this does
> not solve the problem of running your gnome session remotely - it only
> redirects the speech to another machine so I'm not sure whether it
> solves your problem completely.  It may rather be a part of the solution...
>
> Best regards, Tomas