orca
Jude DaShiell
jdashiel at shellworld.net
Fri Dec 14 22:54:29 UTC 2007
I haven't done this much so hope I don't mess this up. export display=:0:
should set the display from the shell.
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Mike Gorse wrote:
> It may also mean that the DISPLAY environment variable hasn't been set. It
> won't be, for instance, on a shell running from the console even if X is
> running, unless you've explicitly set it.
>
> -- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --
>
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Willem van der Walt wrote:
>
>> Cannot open display means that you hav'nt started X windows.
>> > From your user account, run startx
>> and then wait quite a while. Then press alt-f2 and type orca -t there.
>> Speakup will not work when X is running.
>> If it is unsuccessful, pressing control-alt-f1 should get you back to a
>> talking console.
>> hth, Willem
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Daniel Dalton wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Ok I have gnome working.
>> > Now I am trying to install orca and get it to work.
>> > I think I have it installed but when I type orca from a normal terminal
>> > that
>> > speakup works in I get:
>> > /var/lib/python-support/python2.4/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72:
>> > GtkWarning:
>> > could
>> > not open display
>> > warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> > File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>> > File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/orca/orca.py", line 55, in ?
>> > import braille
>> > File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/orca/braille.py", line 53, in
>> > ?
>> > import brl
>> > ImportError: No module named brl
>> >
>> > I can't even run firefox this way.
>> > Do I have to open gnome and go to run app type orca and paste output
>> > from
>> > that?
>> > Or should this work?
>> > I am on debian eche.
>> > I also added two lines to my sources.list file to get some testing stuff
>> > from
>> > leny I think so I could get orca since it wasn't in eche.
>> >
>> > Does anyone know what I should do?
>> >
>> > Thanks for any help,
>> >
>> > --
>> > Daniel Dalton
>> >
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>> > d.dalton at iinet.net.au
>> >
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