Re: [orca-list] can orca work with xfce?

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

I use xfce as my primary desktop on an arch-linux system. 
I just use startx, i.e. no desktop manager or init script or similar to auto start it.
Another poster commented that mate uses less memory, but my experience does not support this, nor does at 
least one 
article I read comparing desktop invironments, although at least two friends say that m ate uses less memory 
on their 
systems.
LXDE should indeed use less memory, but except for trying knopix's accessible version I've never tried it. A 
couple of 
years ago I found this unstable when running more than one GUI ap at a time. 
XFCE sadly does not yet make any panel applets and similar accessible, nor can one see the panels or the 
desktop with orca 
at all. Some  of these functions can be accessed however using menus or keyboard shortcuts, but much can not. 
This is 
certainly far from ideal, but I live with it because I like xfce's easy configurability.
Maate does show the desktop icons and most panel appletts are reasonably accessible in the latest release, 
mate 1.8, but 
there are some focus issues that effect some people more than others. I need to show text to others for my 
work, and the  
display on this netbook is broken. When I try to configure an external monitor orca generally goes silent 
until I close 
the monitor configuration interface. I had problems with mozila programs on another distro with mate also, 
but I will say 
that Mate seems to be under very active development, and from what I hear XFCE not so much at the moment.
For these desktops you will need to export a gtk module by adding 
export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN="gtk"
GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
to your ~/.xinitrc file, or creating a shell script with that in it in your /etc/profile.d/ directory. Enable 
assistive 
tech once xfce is running. It seems that most people get enough speech to do this just by exporting the gtk 
stuff, but I 
had to et sighted help to enable the assistive tech.
When you log-out from either of these desktops you will need to kill off speech-dispatcher. So far the tricks 
I tried to 
do this automatically have not worked.
--
 

 

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:42:58AM -0400, covici ccs covici com wrote:

> I would like to know if orca can work with xfce -- I am tired of trying
> to get systemd and gnome-session to work properly, and would like to try
> a desktop that does not make you use a specific init system!
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> -- 
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
>
>          John Covici
>          covici ccs covici com
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