Re: Now Getting Braille Output From Gnopernicus

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

John:  

As Christopher said, you should not start gnopernicus before starting
GNOME (i.e. gnome-session).

As far as I know, your ~/.xinitrc file need only contain one line,

"exec gnome-session"

in order to start GNOME.  I do not know whether an immediate invocation
of "exec gnopernicus" afterwards would cause a race condition or not;
perhaps a 'sleep' in between would be advisable.  The "gnome-session"
call won't return until you quit GNOME, which is why it needs to be
"exec"'ed instead of just placed in the script.

There's a GUI in gnome for adding startup programs.  Unfortunately there
isn't a proper command-line or script version of this (yet).  But you
can manually edit the session file:

1) create directory ~/.gnome2 if it doesn't exist yet
2) create file ~/.gnome2/session-manual
3) contents of session-manual file:

<blank line>
[Default]
num_clients=1
0,RestartStyleHint=3
0,Priority=60
0,RestartCommand=gnopernicus



I hope that helps.

Bill

> Hello,
> 
> Well, at least I am getting something on my Alva 320 display. When I start 
> Gnome and Gnopernicus the displaly shows "Welcome to Gnopern". Pressing 
> the keys on the front panel of the 320 has no effict. Brltty continues to 
> work with the Braille Lite 40 in port 1. I can read on the screen that 
> that Braille initialization was successful. 
> 
> In my .xinitrc file I have srcore -p2 just before      exec 
> $GARNOME/bin/gnome-session . When I tried replacing "srcore -p2: with just 
> "gnopernicus" it appeared to crash the system. I had to reboot - for the 
> first time in two months. Moreover, I had to press reset to do it.
> 
> I hope these results will help with debugging. They are encouraging, and 
> I'm ready to do further testing as soon as I or someone figures out the 
> next step.
> 
> John
> 
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