Re: [orca-list] Emacs and Orca again

[Peter Rayner <peter rayner lsce ipsl fr>]

Another datapoint on this.  First note that I'm using FC-10 which
means gnome-2-24 and emacs-22.3, not exactly the latest and greatest.
However:
I usually run emacs/orca as Bart originally suggested:
> 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.
> Now I've upgraded to Ubuntu Karmic and this no longer works.  
-- Parenthetically I don't understand the relationship between this
and Bart's next message:
> The difference is that you are running emacs on a console tty.
> What I am talking about is running emacs on the gnome desktop.
Which is not what I understood from the first message but I digress.
I usually
boot to runlevel 3
start emacspeak on virtual console 1
switch to VC2
login then run startx
All proceeds happily until:
For various reasons I need to restart the emacs on VC1
then everything hangs.
This happened even when I remembered to add the -nw flag to the
emacspeak startup script.  Tentative conclusion: order seems to
matter.

I used to run emacs directly under sawfish rather than in
gnome-terminal and that worked fine but was also years ago.
Getting emacs back as a self-voicing application under orca would
certainly be nice. Is the bad emacs/gnome interaction bug logged
somewhere? The closest I see are the Ubuntu bugs 185366 and 183245
which don't appear to have been resolved. 
cheers
Peter



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