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

[covici ccs covici com]

So, now that I have xfce, what program do I start -- can you give me the
xinit file or whatever for doing this?

Thanks.

B. Henry <burt1iband gmail com> wrote:

> 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?
> >
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> >          John Covici
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