Re: [orca-list] best desktop environment for orca?

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hello,

Le 18/05/2018 à 19:11, Jace Kattalakis a écrit :
> To the people who mentioned XFCE, what's the simplest way of getting Orca to work with it, just export the 
> variables into my .xinitrc file or did that change over the years? I'll admit, never tried XFCE but now I 
> want to in order to see what all the fuss is about.
>
> Jace

I don't know in other distributions, but to have orca working wherever possible including XFCE with this in 
~/.profile:
export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN="gtk"
export GTK_MODULES="gail:atk-bridge" # for GTK2
export GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY=1
export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 # for QT4
export QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1 # for QT5

Of course if you don't use any Qt application the two last settings are useless. But, they don't hurt.

Also, we start orca for a given user with a file ~/.config/autostart/startorca.desktop:
didier[~]$ cat .config/autostart/startorca.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Name=orca
Exec=/usr/bin/orca
Hidden=false

Greetings,

Didier
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