Re: Now Getting Braille Output From Gnopernicus

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Bill,

The session-manual file that you gave works great. There is now no call to 
gnopernicus or srcore in my .xinit file. When i type startx there is a 
delay of about a minute, then the message "Welcome to Gnopern" appears on 
my braille display. I had a sighted colleague check the screen. gnome is 
up. The mouse works. However, the Braille display never changes, no matter 
what is done with the mouse, the keyboard or the front-panel keys on the 
display itself.

I am thrilled to be able to contribute to the development of this screen 
reader even as a tester, and maybe i can make some code contributions in 
the future.

John

 On 13 May 2003, Bill Haneman wrote:

> 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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