Re: [orca-list] XFCE and orca

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
How are you starting xfce4? Have you created ~/.xinitrc file from 
scratch or you have just added a line like you have described into it?
After starting orca by running it via xfce4 app finder using alt+f2 can 
you try to press alt+f2 again and try to run spd-say hello or something 
in order to test whether this is orca or speech dispatcher what has just 
crashed?

Greetings

Peter

On 21.06.2013 22:54, Simon Eigeldinger wrote:
> 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?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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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
> > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
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> >
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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
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp