Re: [orca-list] qt-at-spi 32 bit on arch

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I think the person said they were running it in a terminal, so they must 
have run into a different problem.

I'm guessing your script must have set the display variable and pointed 
it to the instance of X running at the time.

On 31/01/17 18:26, B. Henry wrote:
> Yes, C.J., you more or less hit the nail on the head, but if I remember correctly my script was set up where 
> it would work as long as a GUI was running,
> i.e. you could run it from a console if you had started your desktop. The original version I made required 
> one to run the script from a terminal emulator, but
> I am pretty sure that the version on the website, same as the one I attached that did not make the list, had 
> been tweaked to allow running from a console
> as long as ones desktop was running.
> If I uploaded an older version then you would have to run from your graphical interface in a termnal.
> I made a much better version a few months later, but had a minor issue that I do not remember left to fix as 
> I recall, and do not have the time to test and
> if need be fix any problem now. This is mostly because it's been so long since I worked on this that it would 
> take me a while to study things to try and
> recreate my thinking at the time I was playing with this.
> I tested yesterday and all was well, and made a change or two to not onlyu check for a properly installed 
> skype, but to install it even though qt-qt-spi is
> not in main repos any more.
> There's little need for this work now that Peter has made a package that properly installs the 32bit 
> accessiblebridge file for 64bit machines, so unless
> people tell me that the newly uploaded AUR qt-at-spi package is not working as it should I wilil move on to 
> more productive work when I get back to
> scripting. I Had never put anything in to the AUR when I wrote this script, so I did things how I knew how to 
> at the time, but having an AUR package that
> does the installation directly is obviously a much better approach. I have a very long to do list that I will 
> get to when I can, and thank Peter for
> keeping creating a a good qt-at-spi package off that list.
> While there are issues with skype on Linux now, (again one could say), many of us do still use it, and blind 
> people should certainly have the option to use
> skype if they want to.

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