orca

[Jude DaShiell]

I haven't done this much so hope I don't mess this up.  export display=:0: 
should set the display from the shell.



On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Mike Gorse wrote:

> 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
>> > 
>> >  http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/
>> >  d.dalton at iinet.net.au
>> > 
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