Re: [orca-list] orca and lxde



I've now been able to set GTK_MODULES. However, it appears that orca and
applications to be voiced will only speak if launched from a
terminal. If orca is launched from the command dialog (alt+f2), the
value of GTK_MODULES appears to be ignored. Do you have any suggestions
of what could be going wrong? The only thing I can think of is that I'm
not exporting the variable properly... I hear nopix have it running, so
I might shoot them an email.

Thanks very much!
Dan

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:42:27AM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
Good to hear that works.

Just had a quick look at something, possibly a way you can set that
variable. On my system there is a ~/.xinitrc file (there is also a
~/.xsession file but that simply sources the ~/.xinitrc file, just
mentioning it in case you don't have the ~/.xinitrc) and in there I
find a line right at the end which starts my X window manager (in my
case gnome-session). For me this line is:
exec gnome-session
I tried putting the export command just before this to set a
environment variable and then I saved the file and logged out and
back in and sure enough the variable is automatically set for me. As
I believe these are X window files and not gnome specific it should
also work for LXDE if you have the files (I am using a GRML system
so I don't know whether these files are relevant for your distro).

Michael Whapples
On 01/16/2010 12:16 AM, Daniel Dalton wrote:
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:41:13PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
that you need to set GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge which you can do
Thanks, your a champ, that did the trick -- if I run it from a lxterm, and
then invoke orca, I can read the orca window. Once orca is running I can
start a new lxterm, and export again invoking another gtk app
eg. firefox. This works great, however, now I just need to go and find
out what file I should place this in as so it will automatically set the
variables upon start of lxde, and therefore theoretically I should have
access to the desktop, and all apps I invoke.

Thanks for all your help! After some googling, it seems others have got
it working so I'll keep persisting.:)

Cheers,
Dan

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