{"id":108,"date":"2010-03-12T17:09:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T15:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/?p=108"},"modified":"2010-03-12T17:09:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T15:09:28","slug":"gnome-shell-starts-to-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/2010\/03\/gnome-shell-starts-to-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Gnome-shell starts to talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spent <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/2010\/02\/05\/and-finally-cally-talks\/\">some time improving cally<\/a>, reviewing mx new focusable\/focus-manager objects and several days configuring my environment (karmic upgrade, broken linkage in my jhbuild environment, etc) I started to check again how to use cally on gnome shell (first look <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/2009\/08\/12\/taking-a-quick-look-to-the-gnome-shellmutter-a11y\/\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>One of the  entries in my TODO is start to make the module loading more that a hacking patch. A first solution proposal and a gratuitous rant <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=612599\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other point on my TODO list is check why accerciser and orca froze gnome-shell. Well, accerciser still frozes the shell, but, fortunately it seems that orca now works (more or less) fine without doing anything special (black magic probably):<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Orca and Gnome-Shell screencast\" href=\"http:\/\/people.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/files\/20100312_post\/gnome-shell-with-orca_video.ogg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/people.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/files\/20100312_post\/screenshot.png\" alt=\"orca running on gnome-shell\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know that it would be more useful with sound, but as the <a href=\"http:\/\/live.gnome.org\/GnomeShell\/Features#Screencast_Recording\">gnome shell screencast recording<\/a> feature doesn&#8217;t record audio, and I wasn&#8217;t able to use recordmydesktop or istanbul, finally I just recorded the sound with my N900, and I was too lazy to create a video with both. If you are curious enough, you can hear the audio of the previous video screencast <a href=\"http:\/\/people.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/files\/20100312_post\/gnome-shell-with-orca_audio.ogg\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How I run gnome-shell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During this environment configuration time, I was also looking for a convenient way to run gnome shell. On live gnome, <a href=\"http:\/\/live.gnome.org\/GnomeShell#Running\">there are two proposed options to run gnome shell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Replace your own WM (with &#8211;replace option)<\/li>\n<li> To avoid to replace your own WM, run gnome-shell nested (with &#8211;xephyr option).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As I said, running some of the accessibility tools leads to froze the gnome-shell. Additionally in my case, running it on xephyr had a horrible performance, so both options were not really useful to me. Finally I chose a mixed option. I just launch a second X server, and launch the gnome-shell here.<\/p>\n<p>So, in brief:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Move to other tty with Ctrl+F1<\/li>\n<li> Launch other x server: <code>xinit -- :1<\/code><\/li>\n<li> Execute gnome-session <\/li>\n<li> <code>jhbuild shell<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>.\/gnome-shell --replace<\/li>\n<p><\/code>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then you can just use Ctrl+F9 and Ctrl+F7 to move between your &#8220;normal environment&#8221; and your &#8220;gnome-shell&#8221; environment. Probably someone can wonder why it is required to run gnome-session, and not execute directly gnome-shell (without the replace). Well, for any reason if I do that, the performance is also as horrible as with the &#8211;xephyr option. In the same way gnome-session load all my configuration, etc. Not a big issue anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spent some time improving cally, reviewing mx new focusable\/focus-manager objects and several days configuring my environment (karmic upgrade, broken linkage in my jhbuild environment, etc) I started to check again how to use cally on gnome shell (first look here). One of the entries in my TODO is start to make the module loading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/2010\/03\/gnome-shell-starts-to-talk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gnome-shell starts to talk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a11y","category-cally","category-clutter","category-gnome","category-igalia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}