orca

[Jude DaShiell]

The problem is with Xwindows there's an aweful lot of ways to install that 
badly and Xwindows is too stupid to be able to correct the installation 
and then come up in a known state correctly.  I found this out on debian, 
though slackware offers a good install of what parts of XWindows it does 
install.  If you've never run XWindows before there's a good chance you're 
going to have to configure it first and that is not easily done in my 
experience.  That's why not all members of the emacspeak blinux-list and 
speakup list don't have memberships on the Linux G.U.I. accessibility 
lists now, they want to have a pretty good idea either that something will 
work or have a pretty robust instruction set for troubleshooting so they 
can make it work.  The only two Linux flavors I ever got Xwindows working 
on at all with accessibility were fc3 and a couple versions of ubuntu to 
date.



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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