[orca-list] Raspbian: Problem starting orca under ratpoison

[Lars Bjørndal <lars lamasti net>]

Hi, list!

To be able to use a GUI browser when needed, I'd like to get orca to run
on my rpi 3 with Raspbian.

In the .ratpoisonrc file, I have

exec /usr/bin/orca -d speech -e braille

I start ratpoison from xinitrc, and I use startx >logfile.log 2>&1

I the log, I get

X.Org X Server 1.20.4

[...]

ratpoison:actions.c:4802: warning: command "startup_message" is deprecated, use "set startupmessage" instead
GTK Accessibility Module initialized
** Message: 20:15:37.238: x-terminal-emulator has very limited support, consider choose another terminal

** (pcmanfm:1646): WARNING **: 20:15:37.421: The directory '/home/lrs/Templates' doesn't exist, ignoring it
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/orca", line 44, in <module>
    from orca import orca
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/orca.py", line 81, in <module>
    from . import sound
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/sound.py", line 163, in <module>
    _player = Player()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/sound.py", line 55, in __init__
    self.init()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/sound.py", line 123, in init
    self._pipeline.add(self._sink)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Gst.py", line 64, in add
    if not Gst.Bin.add(self, arg):
TypeError: Argument 1 does not allow None as a value

Any idea on what's going on? As speech is disabled, I'd suppose no sound either.

Thanks

Lars