Re: emacspeak and xemacs, or emacs from gui

[Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you saying that emacs is not starting at all or is it starting without
speech?

sometimes, under X windows, terminals, such as gnome terminal, don't start
as a login terminal. This means your bash profile is not sourced. If you
have environment variables specifying which speech server to use etc, they
won't be defined and emacspeak will not be able to speak. 

There are a number of solutions to this problem. However, lets see if this
actually is the problem. Once you open the gnome terminal and before you
run emacs, try executing the line

source .bash_profile

then start emacs as you would normally. If it works, then we know that this
is the problem and we can determine the best way to fix it permanently.

regards,

Tim


> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 07:50:37PM +1100, Jason White wrote:
> > Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > When an emacs buffer is opened from within gnome (gnome-terminal), is it
> > > possible to have emacspeak work with xemacs? If so how? Or if I use
> > > emacs -nw is it possible to get emacspeak to talk? 
> > 
> > First, you don't want to run Xemacs. GNU Emacs has a graphical interface,
> > however, which can be run under X by just starting Emacs.

> So I just type 'emacs'? Do I supply the -nw option? Orca doesn't speak
> with this.

> > 
> > Emacspeak should be started as normal. The tricky part is that if you're also

> That's the problem, it's not starting for some reason, any ideas on how
> to debug this? It's working fine from a text mode screen session.

> > running Orca with speech turned on, you'll need to find a way to turn it off
> > while Emacspeak is running. That might be a question for the Orca list if it
> > becomes a problem for you.

> Insert+s can handle that.

> Thanks,

> Daniel.

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