Re: Now Getting Braille Output From Gnopernicus

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

John:

I am wondering if you have turned on the "accessibility" support gconf
key or not.  You may have missed that step, it's been mentioned a few
times on the list.  I think we need to somehow concatenate all this
information together once again, a number of people have written short
HowTo documents but nothing quite brings all the information together
yet.

Before accessibility will work across the desktop, you need to check
this gconf key:

gconftool-2 --get /apps/desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility 

if it's "false", set it to true:

gconftool-2 --type bool --set
/apps/desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true

(all one line, my emailer is word-wrapping this command).


I hope that this will work for you.  If not, then we need to do some
more diagnostics on gnopernicus (you can kill gnopernicus and srcore,
and any gnome-speech drivers, from a console and then run gnopernicus
manually after GNOME has started, perhaps you will see some useful error
messages).

I am glad to be of help, thanks for your part in trailblazing!

- Bill


On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 15:18, John J. Boyer wrote:
> 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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