Re: [orca-list] Emacs and Orca again

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Bart Bunting <bart ursys com au> wrote:
 
> Previously I had managed to get them to play together by starting emacs from
> the console and exporting the DISPLAY variable.  For reasons unknown to me
> this used to work around the issue of hangs in orca when emacs was started.

I have just conducted the following test with Emacs 23.1, Orca 2.27.5 and
Gnome 2.26, all as packaged by Debian.

1. Started Gnome and Orca by running startx from a console. Orca was
configured to use my braille display as well as ESpeak via Gnome-Speech.

2. Once Orca was running, I switched to another virtual console and ran Emacs.
This also started emacspeak, configured to use a DECTALK Express serial
synthesizer, which all worked fine.  BRLTTY handled the braille display
properly, as is usual, when I switched over to the console.

3. I then switched back to my X session with alt-F7 and continued working with
Orca by reading items on the desktop, again with no problems for either the
braille or the speech output.

Conclusion: I can't reproduce your problem. What are the salient differences
between your environment and mine that explain why it doesn't work for you?