Re: now nothing works

["Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hi, Don.
Don't worry about compiling sawfish. You don't need sawfish. Sawfish is a
window maniger, but Gnome 2 uses the metacity window maniger.
I believe the latest metacity releases comes with garnome, and as long as
metacity is compiled and installed you are set.

----- Original Message -----
From: Don Raikes <don raikes oracle com>
To: Thomas D. Ward <tward1978 earthlink net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: now nothing works


> THomas,
>
> Thanks for the tips. I also discovered that sawfish did not compile, and
for
> some reason I can't get it to compile.
>
> What does sawfish do for me?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>
> To: "Don Raikes" <don raikes oracle com>
> Cc: "Gnome Accessibility List" <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 6:31 PM
> Subject: Re: now nothing works
>
>
> > Hi, Don.
> > Festival server doesn't need to be running in order to run festival with
> > gnopernicus. In fact, I would strongly recommend not starting festival
> > server. Especially, not from with in .xinitrc.
> > Also you do not want to load gnopernicus from with in .xinitrc. The
> correct
> > way to load gnopernicus upon startup is in the .gnome2/session-manual
> file.
> > Finally, you should just be able to set various export variables in
> > .bash_profile to point to your Gnome installation which might be
> > /opt/gnome-2.4 and then if Gnome is your default desktop startx will
load
> > the proper  gnome-session executible.
> > Really .xinitrc is not the best way to handle what you are attempting to
> do.
> > Hth.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Don Raikes <don raikes oracle com>
> > To: Gnome-Accessibility-List Gnome Org
> <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:10 PM
> > Subject: now nothing works
> >
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I had to re-install redhat 8.0 and rebuild gnome 2.2 from garnome
> 0.24.2.
> > > Now when I try starting my gnome installation, I get nothing from
> > > gnopernicus.
> > >
> > > My .xinitrc file looks like:
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > # start the server
> > > festival --server &
> > > gnopernicus &
> > > gnome-terminal &
> > > exec gnome-session
> > >
> > > If I capture the output of the startx command, I see that both bonobo
> > > activation accessibility and gtk accessibility are initialized,
> > > but I never see any indication that gnopernicus has started.
> > >
> > > Usually I get the little message about
> > > screen reader loaded, but now I get nothing.
> > >
> > > If I do a
> > > $ gnopernicus --version
> > > I see that I have gnopernicus 0.3.1 in my path.
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Don Raikes, accessibility specialist
> > > aim: dnraikes
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> > >
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> >
> >
> >
>