Wine and Speakup

[Gregory Nowak]

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I've tried it a long time ago, and found the show stopper for me was
right when I tried to run the window-eyes setup program, wine just
crashed there at the beginning. When I brought this up on this list a
while ago, someone suggested just taking the already installed
window-eyes directory from my standard windows installation, and
trying to run wineyes with a hardware synth, (since the software
speech part is where the setup crashed), and see what
happens. However, I haven't ever gotten around to trying that.

No, you don't need a x desktop running, as long as you don't plan to
interact with the x session directly. Janina posted a way to do this a
while ago via running xv in /etc/inittab in response to my asking if
there was a way to do such a thing. Basically, this would start a x
session for you on a designated display, which you would then export
in your shell, so that programs such as wine can use it. Maybe Janina
will see this, and repost those instructions again, or if not, I think
I have that mail saved here somewhere, I can try to dig it up, and
repost it. It should also of course be in the list archives, but I
don't remember the thread, or the year it was posted.

Greg


On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 09:32:15AM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> I haven't tried it myself, but I know people (sited ones) who have 
> gotten some apps to work in it but it's pretty flaky.  An app that 
> works in one version might break in the next.  No idea how a 
> screenreader would like running under it but you might have problems 
> there.  Also you need a working xwindows desktop running to use wine I 
> believe...someone correct me if I'm wrong.

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