Re: Using the Java ATK Wrapper with Orca... again

2010-01-09 Thread Mario Lang
Paul Hunt writes: > The odd thing is that the same program does occasionally run but that > error output is the usual response. I can confirm this. In roughly 1 out of 5 tries, Java Swing applications with JAW do run without any problem. So the issue seems to be related to locking in combinati

Re: Using the Java ATK Wrapper with Orca... again

2010-01-07 Thread Mario Lang
Ke Wang writes: > I think the problem is that JAW could not find the so library file. That is one possibility, however, the empty catch block in AtkWrapper silently muffles all possible Exceptions so that debugging initialisation problems becomes pretty obscure. I am refering to this piece of c

Re: GNOME Accessibility on by default, and Firefox

2008-10-22 Thread Mario Lang
David Bolter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > Firefox (and other apps) provides accessibility support conditionally. > This means that on GNOME it always runs a little slower for everyone, > and eats up extra resources. I wonder if we could have GNOME > accessibility turned on, but a sepa

Re: What is the proper way of launching Speech Dispatcher?

2008-08-14 Thread Mario Lang
Hynek Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mario Lang wrote: >> I dont want to intrude on a topic that I might be failing to understand, >> but wouldn't this kind of defeat one good point about >> Speech Dispatcher, namely that it is ment to be used by different

Re: Triggering gnome screen-saver timeout from console keypresses?

2008-08-14 Thread Mario Lang
Janina Sajka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mario Lang writes: >> This usage pattern triggers an anoying problem here: The X11 >> screen saver has kicked in every time I switch back to my >> X11 console (Alt+F7). While I understand why there is a password >> p

Re: Triggering gnome screen-saver timeout from console keypresses?

2008-08-13 Thread Mario Lang
doable somehow. > The X server knows when it loses focus however. Well, thats of no use here since if the X server looses focus but no further keyboard interaction happens, the screen saver should still start to protect the users account... > Mario Lang, le Wed 13 Aug 2008 18:47:25

Triggering gnome screen-saver timeout from console keypresses?

2008-08-13 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. Now that Orca really works great these days, I do have a logged in GNOME session on my workstation all the time. However, since the braille support for gnome-terminal is still lacking a few things I really got used to as a long term syssadmin on the linux console with BRLTTY, I do not do all

Re: What is the proper way of launching Speech Dispatcher?

2008-08-13 Thread Mario Lang
Hynek Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'd like to ask if placing a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart/ > is the right way to start Speech Dispatcher for gnome session. I dont want to intrude on a topic that I might be failing to understand, but wouldn't this kind of defeat one go

Re: ASUS Eee PC

2008-06-30 Thread Mario Lang
Kris Van Hees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone here looked at the ASUS Eee PC in terms of accessibility and > whether it is feasible to e.g. install Orca on it (along with all > dependencies) > to provide access to a blind user? I am using a EEE PC with Orca, brltty and the usual Linux a

Re: Is Debian appropriate for accessibility?

2006-12-18 Thread Mario Lang
Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian can be accessible, but I found I had to build packages from source > to get things working. What I found was either badly out dated packages > for some things needed for accessibility, or main stream Debian > simply doesn't have a package for a nee

Re: Getting debian's gnopernicus to talk and java access bridge to compile

2006-04-20 Thread Mario Lang
Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Don't bother trying to get the gnome-speech or Gnopernicus that ships > with Debian working. You will need to build them from source if you > want to get any results. Would you mind sharing your great insight into things with others, and explain actually

Re: (no subject)

2005-10-10 Thread Mario Lang
"Jason Grieves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > The debian package of gnopernicus only recommends gnome-mag. Most new > ubuntu/debian users (and I fell for this too) downloaded gonpernicus package > and it installed with no problems. They loaded up gnopernicus, checked > "magnifier" and

Re: Gnopernicus Sending Output to Serial Device Crashes Hardware Synthesizer

2005-02-14 Thread Mario Lang
"Beth Hatch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been told by a colleague that he had tried to file this > particular bug on the Bugzilla site with Lynx but had very little success > due to the number of tables and other elements of the web interface. I'm > sure that what I'm going to say no

Re: cut and paste in gnome-terminal

2005-02-03 Thread Mario Lang
Bill Haneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mario said, of the assertion that cut-and-paste is a function of the > application, not the terminal: > >> That sounds more like an excuse than a solution to me :-) >> >> > I know what you mean. However, it is true that many console > applications provi

Re: cut and paste in gnome-terminal

2005-02-01 Thread Mario Lang
Bill Haneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Kenny > > There is currently no keyboard navigation for cut-and-paste using a > terminal. There has been extensive discussion of this in the past, > but the main barrier to implementing it is that no one has ever come > up with a proposal for doing it

Re: running gui apps from consul

2005-01-31 Thread Mario Lang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danilo ¦egan) writes: > Today at 18:57, "hank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> hello some one told me that there was something called think it was >> called cursed it allowed gui apps with consul can I get url to >> program, and views on how well this works? > > It's probably G