[orca-list] Orca and LXDE on archlinux

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I recently asked about what tutorials people wanted and archlinux seemed 
to be the winner. The thing that surprised me was the number asking for 
some stuff on using LXDE with orca. I initially wasn't interested in 
LXDE, but having thought about one particular computer I have here I 
thought may be give it a go. This means I have been having a bit of a 
look at LXDE on archlinux before I start recording things and I have to 
say its a bit of a mix of how successful it is.

Firstly starting with the good, I have a certain amount of functionality 
in LXDE (I am actually writing this email from thunderbird in LXDE with 
orca running). Was it simple to set up, well not as easy as gnome but 
still doable. Now to the less good news, may be someone could help here. 
Although I have thunderbird, orca and firefox working (these are the 
main applications I have tested), I don't seem to have access to the run 
dialog, the menu, etc for LXDE, what might be wrong? Just to cover what 
I have done, I export GTK_MODULES in the ~/.xinitrc file just before the 
exec line to run startlxde, and I have also created a at-spi.desktop 
file for starting at-spi-registryd (thunderbird, firefox, etc indicate 
this is fine as they need no special options, etc to launch them to be 
accessible).The things which cross my mind are, by default LXDE in 
archlinux uses openbox for the window manager, could this be causing a 
problem? Also could the place I export GTK_MODULES be causing this?

Should the above not be possible to solve, I probably will focus on 
gnome for the immediate and so try and get the tutorials done asap. My 
personal feeling is that even though the computer I will be using might 
feel right for LXDE, I think it will manage gnome reasonably well.

Michael Whapples