Re: [orca-list] Conditions of Orca work

["Alex H." <linuxx64 bashsh gmail com>]

Hi,

Orca can work with GTK windowmanagers, so LXDE/XFCE would be fine.
What you'll probably want to do is install LXDE and make sure at-spi
starts before the app you want to start. This is done in Knoppix
Adriane. There's a menu that's read by SuseBlinux and when you select
something like "Firefox with graphical screen reader", Orca comes up
talking with Firefox in Focus. Orca doesn't work directly with the
commandline, it needs GNOME or another windowmanager like LXDE/XFCE,
and at-spi running before the windowmanager loads so it can provide
access.

In your case, I'd probably install Speakup for the console, and
configure LXDE to launch only when you need a GTK app like Firefox and
Orca to run. It can be done, I don't know the exact steps though.

Good luck,
Alex

On 4/18/10, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <mengualjeanphi free fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use a Debian lenny on a very old laptop. This laptop is so old that,
> on X, it's very slow and sometimes it freezes, probably because cpu load
> is too big or because not enough ram.
>
> That's why I want to use slight environments. So I'd like to know 2
> things about Orca: firstly, is it possible to run it with Xorg only? I
> intend to run Xorg, write command-line commands to run firefox or
> openoffice or evolution, then use Orca to read them. Is it possible? So
> far I tried but no display after Orca starts.
> Secondly, if that's not possible (I feel that alt-tab doesn't work in
> such context), can you tell me how I can install orca for lxde or xfce
> and what are window managers most slight Orca works properly with. I
> think for instance of twm... I need a tutorial, an explanation on how to
> install, or suggestions of slight environments.
>
> Thanks for information.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
>
>
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