Re: [orca-list] orca and lxde

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Looking at your debug output and what you describe and then some of the 
following messages in this thread, I conclude that you aren't getting 
all required GTK modules loading when you start an application. I am 
sorry I can't remember what these are or what the environment variable 
is you can specify them in as it has been a long time since I needed to 
do that as gnome seems to do that automatically.

My reasoning is mainly that I think if at-spi isn't running orca will 
report this or a timeout in the debug and also I think orca exits under 
that condition.

I just thought of looking in my environment, I think it might be that 
you need to set GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge which you can do with the 
following command:
export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
although there may be some way of setting this in the start up process 
of LXDE.

Hope that helps a bit.

Michael Whapples
On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm trying to run orca under lxde to see how lxde compares to gnome,
> mainly in regards to speed. I mainly use the console, so it's pretty
> silly to have a desktop that hogs a lot of unnecessary memory for very
> little use.
>
>
> So, I installed xdm, lxde and log in. That works fine, a sighted person
> has verified that the desktop came up.
>
>
> I then tried running orca, I was able to go through all the preferences
> with someone visually, but when I enable braille as far as I get is:
> "Welcome to orca." It then just stops providing any output to me. Initially it spoke a
> little, but it just said "Welcome to orca"
> (It doesn't appear to be speaking now, but I'll worry about that later.)
>
>
> I could never read the orca window, menus dialogs etc. So does anyone
> know what I'm doing wrong here? Has anyone had any luck with lxde, it's
> supposed to be all gtk based, so theoretically I don't know why it can't
> work.
>
>
> Debug output follows.
>
>
> Using speech server factory: orca.gnomespeechfactory
> Speech module has been initialized.
> Braille module has been initialized using WINDOWPATH=7
> braille display size = (32, 1)
> Magnification module has NOT been initialized.
> SPEECH OUTPUT: 'Welcome to Orca.'
> BRAILLE LINE:  'Welcome to Orca.'
>       VISIBLE:  'Welcome to Orca.', cursor=0
> NEW SCRIPT: default (module=orca.default)
> ACTIVE SCRIPT: default (module=orca.default) (reason=activate)
> Script.getKnownApplications...
> ...Script.getKnownApplications
>
>
> Thanks very much
> Dan
>