Re: [orca-list] vm player that works with orca

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

It's been a while since I installed it from scratch, and I don't want to
reinstall it right now to check, but I believe all I did was the following:

1) Open a terminal or a console, and use the cd command to make the
directory where the .bundle file is located the current working directory.
2) Make sure the .bundle file was executable with the following command:

$ chmod 755 <.bundle file name>

3) Run the executable .bundle file with the command:

$ sudo ./<.bundle file name>

Note the "./" preceding the file name, which assumes you're in the
directory wherre the .bundle file is located.

4) Respond to the questions that come up.
5) After the install, look for System Tools -> VMware Player. Note that
I'm running the classic desktop, but I'm sure you could find it with the
Dash in Unity.
6) You may have to reboot or restart Gnome at some point. Just follow
the on screen instructions. I think when you first start VMware Player,
you may also need to let some components be recompiled, but again, just
follow the on screen instructions.

There are probably other ways to do this, but I'm pretty sure this is
what I've done to get it to work and install in the past.

On 03/02/12 05:27, Andy Borka wrote:    
> How did you get it installed? I downloaded it from VMWare's website,
> pressed ENTER on the .bundle file, and after a few minutes of my laptop
> spinning hard, ended up with a screen that orca would not respond to. In
> fact, after a point it was as though orca was not even running. Any
> ideas? If this a swing app, I never had success with getting them to
> work; even with atk wrapper and access bridge it still fails.
>
> On 02/03/2012 06:15 AM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> > Also, I'm not sure what is meant by VMware Player not being accessible
> > with Orca. I use it daily, and I find it accessible. BTW, I run Orca
> > 3.1.9-xdesktop on Ubuntu 11.04, and I'm using VMware Player 4.1. I run
> > Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10 as guest OS's in VMware Player.
> >
> > On 02/02/12 22:38, Jason White wrote:
> > > Andy Borka<sonfire11 gmail com>  wrote:
> > > > Does anyone know of a vm player that works withh orca? Both
> > > > virtualbox and vmware player are inaccessable.
> > > I'm not sure what you mean by a "player", but if you're just looking
> > > for a
> > > virtualization solution you could also try Kvm or Xen.
> > >
> > > Kvm will let you forward a braille device from the host operating
> > > system to
> > > the guest operating system. I haven't tried it, but it's documented.
> > > It also
> > > supports audio. If the guest system is running in text mode, (i.e., the
> > > console of the guest is text rather than a video frame buffer), you
> > > can access
> > > it directly from the host system - see the -display curses option in
> > > the qemu
> > > manual page.
> > >
> > > Xen has similar functionality for text access.
> > >
> > > With audio forwarding, you might be able to run Orca in the guest and
> > > interact
> > > with it from the host system. However, the graphical display of the
> > > guest
> > > system can't be made accessible directly on the host - you have to
> > > run Orca on
> > > the guest.
> > >
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> > > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > > The manual is at
> > > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
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Christopher (CJ)
chaltain gmail com