I just installed gnome recently on my new laptop which is running Arch and don't recall having to install any extra packages other than the gnome and gnome-extra packages. Well, in that, I had previously installed xorg as instructed by the Arch wiki and I think I had to install one of the video packages for my system; forgot with one now. but I think there's a group to install gnome-video which might cover this issue. Beond that, I pretty much got gnome and Orca going just fine. I may go and look for xdg-dirs though since one little hickup was the normal gnome user folders didn't automatically get created for some reason. I would have thought that would have gone in with standard packages though. Anyway, I have Arch Linux including gnome and Orca just flying along nicely on two machines here. On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 04:53:54PM -0500, Christopher Moore wrote: > Hello Igor, > On my arch linux system I discovered that I needed to install a couple packages beyond gnome and gnome-extras. > > Installing the xdg-user-dirs package eliminated the need for the > XDG variables in the .xinitrc file. I also found that the PYTHONPATH varialbe was not needed. > > I also discovered that the gnome-terminal needs to be installed as a > separate arch package. > > So my .xinitrc consists of one "exec" command and no exports. > > I suggest that other arch linux users insttall gnome and take orca for a test drive. > > Chris > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 01:10:25PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > > It's been a while since I've configured ORca and friends since I haven't > > upgraded in a while, but here goes. While I don't use Arch on this laptop, this > > Xinitrc that I use to get this going will probably help: > > export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/gnome/share > > export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/opt/gnome/etc/xdg > > export > > PYTHONPATH=/opt/gnome/lib64/python2.6/site-packages:/opt/gnome/lib/python2.6/site-packages:/opt/gnome/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0 > > exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session > > > > You may have to modify paths and things a bit from the above, but assuming you > > have stuff in /opt it should work. As for Orca, if I recall I first ran orca -t, > > and selected the option to have it run at startup. Hope this helps somewhat. > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:01:06PM -0500, Christopher Moore wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I'm trying to run gnome using startx rather than gdm on arch linux. > > > Does anyone have an example of a .xinitrc file to get me started? > > > I can get into gnome, but my environment variables such as $PATH > > > aren't set because I can't start orca with > > > altl+f2 orca (enter). > > > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > > > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > -- > > > This message has been scanned for viruses and > > > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > > > believed to be clean. > > > > > > > -- > > Igor > > > > -- > > This message has been scanned for viruses and > > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > > believed to be clean. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
