Re: [orca-list] Problems with Orca text setup (was Re: gnome-orca .2.22 about to enter unstable)

[Daniel Dalton <d dalton iinet net au>]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Jason White wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:59:47PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote:
>
> > This does not make sense at all!  Why would you fake a X11 display
> > if you are trying to use the "text setup"?
> > I never had to fake a X11 display to be able to use orca -t.
>
> This appears to have changed recently. If I run it without setting the DISPLAY
> environment variable to point to an X display, I get:
>
> jason jdc:~$ orca -t
> /var/lib/python-support/python2.4/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72: GtkWarning:
> could
> not open display
>  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>      File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/orca/orca.py", line 54, in ?
>          import pyatspi
>            File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pyatspi/__init__.py", line
>            44, in ?
>                reg = bonobo.activation.activate_from_id(REGISTRY_IID, 0, 0)
>                Bonobo.GeneralError

Starting X, then in another vc running orca -t actually works.
If your working from svn there seems to be a bug with -t...
Or if that fails just run orca --setup (I believe.) from a gnome 
terminal...
So its:
startx

That should boot your desktop. Does it?
Then switch to another text console and issue this command:
orca -t

Not sure how to set the display variable because
echo $DISPLAY
prints nothing even when x is running and working correctly.

> > I've had various problems around gnome-speech and the initial
> > text setup as well.
> > AIUI, this is more related to the way GNOME-Speech and ORBit
> > are implemented, than to any Debian specifics, but I might be wrong.
>
> Thanks. That shows it isn't some oddity of my particular mix of installed
> packages and libraries, then. I'll wait for further comments on the list
> before visiting Bugzilla.

I get the same sort of errors as you I believe. If that is what you were 
refering too.

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