Re: [orca-list] XFCE?

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

I like XFCE alot, and if it had panels that could be seen by orca I'd likely use it as my primary desktop. 
While for some users  aparently mate is using less RAM, for me, and according to all tests I've read results 
from XFCE is 
using less memory. It is highly configurable, and the interface is quite intuitive/quite similar to gnome2 or 
Mate. 
YOu must have the GTK__MODULE export line as you do for Mate somewhere so that it's taken in to account when 
XFCE is 
launched. I have this in my ~/.xinitrc as I use startx to launch my gui sessions on arch-linux. I also have 
put the gtk 
line, (or lines as some folks use two lines of configuration), in a .sh file in /etc/profile.d/. Name should 
not really 
matter as long is the .sh ext. is used. I call mine gtk_access.sh. There should be a qt-accessiblity.sh file 
in the same 
directory. I think mine was put there when I installed a qt-at-spi package. 
Anyway, aside from the lack of a usable panel/systray, notifications area, what ever you want to call this, 
XFCE mostly 
rocks. You can and should use some gnome packages, keyrings and stuff like that, and I say best to auto-start 
them.
You may run in to an issue where XFCE wants to restart any programs you were running in your last session, 
especially, but 
not necesarily limited to when something crashes and you restart XFCE. 
Just delete all contents of
~/.cache/sessions/
when you log-out of xfce. 
I wrote a little script that kills off speech-dispatcher and cleans out the sessions dir as I'm using 
espeakup on this 
box, not speechd-up.
There are a few more odds and ends you should deal with, but this should get you going. 
Oh, I do not know if it's arch specific or not, but I had to edit a few .ini and similar configuration files 
so that they 
could be seen correctly with orca. 
I did not make a list, but they included at least a couple of media players, VLC and totem I think, maybe 
other(s) as 
well. 
Mangler also need an edit I think as buttons were not displayed by default. 
I can't remember what if anything else, but mostly we are tal;kingabout making sure that programs did not 
start with most 
everything hidden, very small or miinimized.
I should have docummented these edits, or even scripted them, but did not. 
I'll try and do this if I have the new to me laptop that I'm expecting come soon.
--
B.H.


  
On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 09:18:27PM +0200, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm going to do some tests on a Debian to experience if XFCE is usable with
> Orca. So far it was not accessible. But it seems it should, as written in
> GTK, and because an option allows to enable a11y utilities (screen reader
> and magnifier).
>
> Has someone had a good feedback with it? What do you think of XFCE a11y? Is
> this option useful for Orca?
>
> Regards,
>
> _______________________________________________
> 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