From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cardinal.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.121.226]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1APVeE-0000fm-00 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:34:10 -0500 Received: from h-68-166-89-140.chcgilgm.covad.net ([68.166.89.140] helo=linserver.romuald.net.eu.org) by cardinal.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1APVe5-0001kd-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:34:01 -0800 Received: (qmail 720 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2003 23:34:03 -0000 Received: from snoopy.lan.lan (192.168.0.3) by linserver.romuald.net.eu.org with SMTP; 27 Nov 2003 23:34:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 374 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Nov 2003 23:34:01 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:34:01 -0600 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20031127233401.GA367@romuald.net.eu.org> References: <20031127221351.GA308@romuald.net.eu.org> <20031127225321.QZLD1561.mta9.adelphia.net@beavis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031127225321.QZLD1561.mta9.adelphia.net@beavis> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: gnome problems under slackware X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:34:10 -0000 Thanks. I don't have a mouse attached, so I guess I'll need to wait with this until I get one. Greg On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:59:46PM -0500, Jacob Schmude wrote: > Hi > Did you configure X correctly? My guess is that X locked up either due to lack of configuration or incorrect configuration. Best way is to run xfree86-setup > utility that comes with slack, then edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and put in your monitor's horizontal and vertical sync rates if you need to. Also, make sure you > have a mouse plugged in, I've had X lock up on me for having no mouse. > I think you may be going about starting gnome and gnopernicus the wrong way. What you probably want to do is: > 1. link /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.gnome to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, this is probably why you only heard a very small bit of hd activity. Gnome was probably not the > default window manager. > 2. log in as your user in text mode and issue: > gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true > 3. export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge:gail-gnome > export GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY=1 > 4. run startx > 5. within gnome, press alt+f2 and type gnopernicus and press enter > If everything's set up, that'll make it come up talking. I'd advise adding the export lines to .bash_profile. The gconftool-2 command only needs to be issued > once. You can make gnopernicus start automatically from within gnome's control center accessibility options. Note in general, starting X apps from the > console isn't the best way to do it. > HTH > -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org