Re: [orca-list] Orca in TTY1 Console Problem $DISPLAY environment

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

I've run into something like this before but don't remember the exact 
fix.  Also, Orca has gone under fixes over time that made this better.

I want to be sure a couple things first here so I will ask some 
questions.  What distro are you using?  How are you invoking X and 
gnome? You said something about tty1; well, tty1 is usually a text 
console unless you're using some run level that changes all this.  
That's why I ask which distro you are running.

As an example, I run Arch linux and what I did to get Orca going and 
running every time is to login as a text user on tty1 with speakup 
running at the text console.  I then started gnome for the first time by 
typing startx and made sure speakup was muted so as not to compete with 
Orca and such.  I then waited for what I felt to be long enough and then 
did alt-f2 to open the command prompt window in gnome and then typed 
orca with no options.  I shortly had speech and was able to configure 
the choices I wanted.  Orca then told me I would need to restart gnome 
as I would expect.  I then did another startx and gnome came up with 
Orca talking nice and pretty like <smile>.

I now have my machine configured with twelve VCs with native login 
prompts so whenever gnome is started, it takes tty13 and I can get there 
with right-alt-f1.  I now use gdm to login but the remaining behavior is 
the same.

Hope this extra noise helps you some.


On 08/29/2009 11:47 AM, David Ring wrote:
> I'm having a problem - perhaps two - running orca from  a virtual
> console - Alt+Ctrl+1
>
> This is the error message:
>
> /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72:
> GtkWarning: could not open display
>    warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
> Enter choice: Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/orca/orca.py", line 1086, in
> _showPreferencesConsole
>      module.showPreferencesUI(_commandLineSettings)
>    File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/orca/orca_console_prefs.py",
> line 440, in showPreferencesUI
>      (not setupSpeech(prefsDict)):
>    File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/orca/orca_console_prefs.py",
> line 207, in setupSpeech
>      choice = int(sayAndPrint(_("Enter choice: "), False, True))
>    File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/orca/orca_console_prefs.py",
> line 111, in sayAndPrint
>      return raw_input(text)
> EOFError
>
> I believe the errors are $DISPLAY environment isn't set, and I have no
> idea how to set it to the framebuffer or whatever it is that tty1
> displays, but noteworthy is that if I just type:
>
> orca
>
> Orca works and me the screen as it sets up (even though I've already
> set it up in the Gnome desktop X server).
>
> After I go through the text Orca set up, it asks me to press RETURN
> and log in again.
>
> I answered "y" to "Do you want Orca to run at startup" - but it does
> not, and when I try to run
>
> orca
>
> at the command line, it just prompts me (again) to set up Orca.
>
> In other words, it doesn't store the setup information.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to give me.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> David J. Ring, Jr.
> Green Harbor, MA
>
> -30-
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