Re: [orca-list] Raspbian: Problem starting orca under ratpoison

[Lars Bjørndal <lars lamasti net>]

Thank you.

On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 08:25:30PM -0500, Storm Dragon wrote:
> Howdy Lars,
>
> If you are willing to try another distro other than Raspbian, you could use F123Light. It is based on Arch 
> Linux and has working orca, speech-dispatcher, and a CLI that uses Fenrir. If you would like to give it a 
> shot, please let me know and I will send more instructions.

Thanks. I don't think so. My primary goal was to use Fedora, as I'm using Fedora on most of my systems. On 
Rpi I've used Fedberry, which was retired since EOL of Fedora 29. With Fedora I got problems with bluetooth 
to the Handy Tech Active Braille braille display. I see that Raspbian is much more responsive than Fedora 
was. Fedberry, which used Rpi-based kernel, worked well.

Lars

> On Sun, Dec 01, 2019 at 09:23:16PM +0100, Orca-list wrote:
> > Hi, list!
> >
> > To be able to use a GUI browser when needed, I'd like to get orca to run
> > on my rpi 3 with Raspbian.
> >
> > In the .ratpoisonrc file, I have
> >
> > exec /usr/bin/orca -d speech -e braille
> >
> > I start ratpoison from xinitrc, and I use startx >logfile.log 2>&1
> >
> > I the log, I get
> >
> > X.Org X Server 1.20.4
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > ratpoison:actions.c:4802: warning: command "startup_message" is deprecated, use "set startupmessage" 
> > instead
> > GTK Accessibility Module initialized
> > ** Message: 20:15:37.238: x-terminal-emulator has very limited support, consider choose another terminal
> >
> > ** (pcmanfm:1646): WARNING **: 20:15:37.421: The directory '/home/lrs/Templates' doesn't exist, ignoring 
> > it
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "/usr/bin/orca", line 44, in <module>
> >    from orca import orca
> >  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/orca.py", line 81, in <module>
> >    from . import sound
> >  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/sound.py", line 163, in <module>
> >    _player = Player()
> >  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/sound.py", line 55, in __init__
> >    self.init()
> >  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/sound.py", line 123, in init
> >    self._pipeline.add(self._sink)
> >  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Gst.py", line 64, in add
> >    if not Gst.Bin.add(self, arg):
> > TypeError: Argument 1 does not allow None as a value
> >
> > Any idea on what's going on? As speech is disabled, I'd suppose no sound either.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Lars
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