Re: [orca-list] copyinig accessible bridge file trick not working to get skype to speak on arch

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

I was not detailed in my explanation of what I did, sorry, but I did indeed get the 32bit qt-at-spi package a 
few months ago, and unless I missed a 
recent update nothing has changed there...I'll double check now to make sure that there's not a more recent 
version, but I have done exactly the same 
thing I did as you explain Peter, copying the 32bit .so file in to the dir I created in /usr/lib32/qt....
I suppose my file could be corrupted, also, but I have no reason to think this has happened...will download 
the 32bit package again on the off chance 
this is the case.
OK, I see there's apparently a new version since I last downloaded,hopefully that was the problem.
Yes, silly me...I obviously did not notice the last qt-atspi update although I was pay8ing attention, and had 
not double check package versions for a 
bit, well since june 15 it appears...lol...
Thanksfor confirming that things were still working as before.../will rewrite my accesible skype installation 
script to check for updates to qt-at-spi.


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  Peter Vágner wrote:
Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 08:49:49PM +0200

> Hello,
>
> I am sorry but most likelly you are miss understanding this hack.
> The thing is that on 64 bit machine you do need to have 32 bit build of
> qt-at-spi not at-spi2-atk or any other gnome library. I haven't found a way
> on how to build from source but luckily enough manually downloading i686
> package extracting a proper file out of it and placing it where lib32-qt4
> expects it to be is working fine.
>
> In order to install or update this hack to the latest available version run
> the following command sequence exactly in this order from the terminal...
>
> mkdir /tmp/lib32-qt-at-spi
> cd /tmp/lib32-qt-at-spi
> wget "https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/qt-at-spi/download/";
> -O "qt-at-spi-i686.pkg.tar.xz"
> tar xvf "qt-at-spi-i686.pkg.tar.xz"
> sudo rm -Rf /usr/lib32/qt/plugins/accessiblebridge
> sudo mv usr/lib/qt4/plugins/accessiblebridge /usr/lib32/qt/plugins/
> cd
> rm -Rf /tmp/lib32-qt-at-spi
>
>
> By default wget is not installed on pure arch linux so if you are missing it
> you can use curl or any other suitable app to download the file.
> If you just want to follow this without tweaking then you can install wget
> by running
> sudo pacman -S wget
>
> I have just tested it and it indeed works fine here.
>
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
> On 17.09.2015 at 20:26 José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> > Hi.
> > I have libqspiaccessiblebridge.so in the following folder:
> > /usr/lib32/qt/plugins/accessiblebridge
> >
> > Since you are using arch, I found in the uar repository a package called
> > lib32-at-spi2-atk
> > I tried to compile and install the package but no luck for the lack of
> > some dependencies .
> >
> >
> > On 09/17/2015 02:58 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> > > I finally went on and put pulseaudio on my arch box so I could use skype
> > > there/using alsa for everything that does not require PA.
> > > Skype works, copied a working .Skype dir to get past license and log-in
> > > prompts with out sighted assistance, and can use skype with CLI helper
> > > apps, but
> > > as you already probably inferred from the need to reuse a .Skype dir
> > > there's no speech.
> > > I made the dir in /usr/lib32 and copied the accessiblebridge file in  to
> > > place which used to be all that was required to get skype to speak.
> > > Has something changed, and or is there a new way to get skype accessible
> > > with Orca on arch?
> > > I had trouble with one manjaro F123 instance some time ago not speaking,
> > > another worked correctly.
> > > Any ideas?