Wine and Speakup

[Christian]

Hello Greg,
Many thanks for your info!
Will install and see how it works for me. It was my thought as well to run a screen reader and see how it works.
The question is how one switch from Wine to something else in Linux. But to me it looks like it is run from a console so it shouldnt be any problems.
I am running latest Debian.
Many thanks,
Christian


On 2006-07-08 at 12:37 Gregory Nowak wrote:

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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
>
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>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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