Re: [orca-list] unusual behavior with latest master?

[covici ccs covici com]

Trevor Saunders <trev saunders gmail com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 06:53:47PM -0500, covici ccs covici com wrote:
> > Hi.  I am using orca as of git: 9f8547094228b3a568265754e73308f66a42092c
> > which is to say latest as of time of writing.
> >
> > I am getting unusual behavior.  I have been usin orca with
> > speech-dispatcher, and when the new version came out, I had to
> > reconfigure a bit to get it system-wide.  Its conmmunication method is
> > INET_SOCKET.  However, Orca is not seeing it at all, it just sees
> > gnome-speech-services.  Now under that there is a speech-dispatcher
> > driver, however I am pretty sure this is not the same.  I am using
> > speech-dispatcher 0.7.1-r1 under gentoo 32-bit.
>
> with that setup you need to have the variable SPEECHD_ADDRESS set to
> inet_socket:host:port in the enviroment orca runs in.
>
> > Its looking pretty interesting with all the new features, so I want to
> > get things going, but I want to get the basics working before I play
> > very much.
> >
> > I also noticed that the settings were very much changed and I seemed to
> > have lost whatever settings I had before, from a git of about 2
> > December. This is not too much of a big deal, but I wonder what
> > happened?
>
> the way orca stores configuration changed, see the archives.
> Trev
>
> > Any ideas on these topics would be appreciated.

So if it is an environment variable, where do I put it?  Do I use export
and where would I put the export statement?
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