Re: [orca-list] XFCE and orca

[Simon Eigeldinger <simon eigeldinger vol at>]

hi Peter,

I just tried that on my ubuntu 13.04 machine.
i got xfce 4 to install but ffter boting it and then hitting alt+f2 and 
entered orca then orca seems to have crashed.
welcome to orca was announced but i don't know if orca really started 
completely or not. after that i tried hitting alt+f1 and there was no 
speech. i also tried insert+space to bring up the orca settings dialog 
which also didn't come up.


before that i created this file:
~/.xinitrc


with the following content:
export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge


any suggestions?

greetings,
simon


Am 19.06.2013 16:00, schrieb Peter Vágner:
> Hello,
> I am also using xfce on one of my machines and I have got a lot of apps
> working in there.
> So let's assume you have got pure text based arch linux installed and
> you would like to get xfce installed and try to make it accessible.
> Here is what I would suggest:
> - install xfce4 and xfce4-goodies groups of packages.
> - If you have no ~/.xinitrc file then copy the default one into your
> home directory
> cp /etc/skel/.xinitrc ~/.xinitrc
> - edit ~/.xinitrc with your favorite text editor. Make sure the line
> exec startxfce4
> is there and is not commented out.
> Before this line add another line saying
> export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
> - Install orca what will also install speech-dispatcher and other
> dependencies.
> - Now either change speech-dispatcher configuration so it will use alsa
> as its output module or install pulseaudio.
> You can edit /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf
> - At this point you should be able to start xfce by executing startx .
> As it starts up you will be greeted by the pannel configuration which is
> not accessible. You can escape or alt+f4 out of it and then press alt+f2
> to run xfce4 app finder and type in orca to launch it.
> - If orca starts first thing you should do is that you will press alt+f1
> to inwoke the popup menu, choose applications -> settings ->
> accessibility and enable screen reader checkbox.
>
> I haven't installed gdm in order to get accessible login screen because
> it installs a lot of gnome dependencies. Instead I have installed SLiM
> and set it to autologin.
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM#Autologin
>
> In order to make the experience better I have installed the following
> gnome and lxde packages:
> polkit-gnome, evince, file-roller, pcman-fm.
> QT4 apps can also be made accessible while running xfce4 you have to
> instal qt-at-spi from AUR and restart the machine in order to get it
> working.
>
> xfce4-terminal is accessible, it has even keyboard shortcut for select all.
> Mousepad what is xfce text editor is working verry well too.
> For playing multimedia you can install vlc, totem or DeaDBeeF for music.
> DeaDBeeF is just partially accessible but it's avesome.
>
> Firefox, Thunderbird and libre-office are all working verry well.
> In the alt+F1 menu -> settings -> prefered applications I have changed
> default filemanager from thunar to pcman-fm.
>
> Hopefully this is usefull
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
> On 19.06.2013 15:04, Dave Hunt wrote:
> > I'm sure ou can use LO, Firefox, and other popular titles with XFCE
> > and LXDE.  There's a version of Sonar with LXDE.  The panel is
> > inaccessible, but the menus and configurators seem to work with orca.
> > I know you're not a Ubuntu user, but Jonathan's Sonar LXDE can show
> > you how it's done.  I think it's a matter of setting a couple of
> > environment variables and/or configuration switches to get LXDE talking?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > orca-list mailing list
> > orca-list gnome org
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > 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
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
>
> _______________________________________________
> orca-list mailing list
> orca-list gnome org
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> 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
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp

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