orca

[Mike Gorse]

It may also mean that the DISPLAY environment variable hasn't been set. 
It won't be, for instance, on a shell running from the console even if X 
is running, unless you've explicitly set it.

-- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Willem van der Walt wrote:

> Cannot open display means that you hav'nt started X windows.
>> From your user account, run startx
> and then wait quite a while.  Then press alt-f2 and type orca -t there.
> Speakup will not work when X is running.
> If it is unsuccessful, pressing control-alt-f1 should get you back to a
> talking console.
> hth, Willem
>
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Daniel Dalton wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ok I have gnome working.
>> Now I am trying to install orca and get it to work.
>> I think I have it installed but when I type orca from a normal terminal that
>> speakup works in I get:
>> /var/lib/python-support/python2.4/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72: GtkWarning:
>> could
>> not open display
>>   warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/orca/orca.py", line 55, in ?
>>     import braille
>>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/orca/braille.py", line 53, in ?
>>     import brl
>> ImportError: No module named brl
>>
>> I can't even run firefox this way.
>> Do I have to open gnome and go to run app type orca and paste output from
>> that?
>> Or should this work?
>> I am on debian eche.
>> I also added two lines to my sources.list file to get some testing stuff from
>> leny I think so I could get orca since it wasn't in eche.
>>
>> Does anyone know  what I should do?
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Dalton
>>
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>> d.dalton at iinet.net.au
>>
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