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

[David Ring <n1ea arrl net>]

Thanks John,

I must have gotten confused and not remembered if I was in console tty or in gnome-terminal.

While I'm writing this, I want to comment on how much I love your signature line.  Bravo for you!

One suggestion for the Orca crew that would make it better for visually impaired users, 

Could it be suggested that the default setting under Orca Preferences, General Preferences, "Speak object under mouse" be enabled by default?

I know that development groups are always looking for cool things to do, so having already suggested that it would be delightful to have some way to enable a program and have it install orca and all the other programs needed for console text to speech.

I am personally blown away in amazement at home k3b the DVD and CD burner calls sub-programs and integrates many wonderful things all in one gui.  But such is Linux - one program doing something especially great.

Thanks for all your good work - it is a noble adventure and task that you are dong, and as one of your users, I wish to express my profound appreciation and gratitude for your efforts.

Best wishes to all and for your works,

David J. Ring, Jr.

Green Harbor, MA

USA

-30-

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:30 AM, <covici ccs covici com> wrote:

As far as I know, Orca only works under Gnome, or more accurately any
environment which uses the at-spi interface -- it will not work at the
console, you can use gnome-terminal to sort of do what you want, but for
console access you should use speakup and you can use espeak with
speakup with a special speakup-espeak connector.

Hope that helps.

David Ring <n1ea arrl net> wrote:

> Hello Steve,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I'm using the fully updated Kosmic Koala Ubuntu 64 bits version.
> Orca is Orca 2.26.1
>
> I thought I had at one time gotten Orca to run in the console mode -
> Alt Ctrl 1 - for tty1.
>
> I might have been confused because orca setup runs in the console and
> says the screen as it prints.
>
> I just checked and hadn't noticed before that it doesn't say the keys
> I press!  I hadn't noticed that before.
>
> It just gives me an error about the $DISPLAY variable not being set.
> I thought that Orca would work both in X and in console.
>
> I find some things are easier to do in the console - at least I don't
> have to discover the button that I have to click on - but sometimes
> programs don't even work outside of X Windows - so I have to use X.
>
> Is Orca not working in console a fault of my setup, or is Orca just
> designed for X.
>
> If so and if it were an easy to accomplish item, this user - and
> probably others - if Orca simply doesn't work in console mode, could
> espeak (or some possible other solution) be downloaded when Orca is
> installed, and somehow be integrated into Orca so that when Orca
> detects that the user is using a console terminal - say tty1, that
> Orca would then call for the appropriate programs and send the Orca
> configuration and modify it (asking for nirvana?) so that the other
> program can just go to work!
>
> However, I'm still ignorant about Orca working in tty1 - does it?
> Does it in certain versions?  If so which.
>
> Thanks for your answers and your time,
>
> David Ring
> Green Harbor, MA
>
> =30=

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