Hi bill, I just tried passing the export gtk_modules variable to gnome terminal fired up gaim and I got absolutely nothing out of gaim. What am I doing wrong? I get nothing out of that app.
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 21:19 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote: > HI Cody: > > The problems you are having are related but have slightly different root > causes. In order for gnopernicus (or any Gnome accessibility client) to > work properly, the application must implement the necessary > accessibility interfaces and load a "bridge" through which it > communicates to the AT-SPI accessibility framework. KDE applications > don't yet do this, although the KDE team has been working to support > AT-SPI in the KDE 4 timeframe. For best results with Mozilla, you'll > need one of the 'Sun builds' of Mozilla, which are periodically > published to this mailing list and can be downloaded in source code form > and I believe as RPMs for some platforms as well. > > For Gaim, things should work OK for you if you first set a special > GTK_MODULES variable in your environment. There is a distinction that > can be made between applications that base their entire user interface > on gtk+, and those that depend on more of the Gnome libraries. at > startup if assistive technology support is needed, but the second type > of program gets notified automatically "Gtk+-only" or "pure Gtk+" > programs (including Gaim) do not. So to make Gaim work you need to set > GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge from the command line (the syntax depends on > your setup, probably either "setenv GTK_MODULES gail:atk-bridge" or > "export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge" will do it, then start 'gaim' from > the same command line. > > You may find more useful information you want in the appendices to the > Gnome 2.10 Accessibility Guide: > http://gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.10/ > > HTH > > Bill > > > Hurst, Cody wrote: > > > Hello I'm having some issues with gnopernicus. I've done my research and > >google reports that the instant messenger GAIM works with gnopernicus but > >when i truied to use it, gnopernicus will not read anything. Evolution seems > >to work fine, but KMail does the same thing as gaim, reads nothing. I can't > >get to the menu bar, if there is one, and I can't read anything in it. I'm > >also having issues with Mozilla web browser, and I've also tried conqueror. > >I can't use anything other then evolution email really. now I haven't > >upgrade gnopernicus 0.10.4 on my SuSe 9.3 system to v 0.11.4 but I hope it > >has some improvments. its really a great project they shoujld keep working > >on. > > > >Thanx, > > > >Cody > > > >_______________________________________________ > >gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
