Re: [orca-list] making orca quiet during long operations

["Brent Harding" <bharding doorpi net>]

Oh, I got the Edgy reinstalled again, think the huge flood of speech 
probably locked it up in the dist-upgrade as after a point there was no 
response from any key pressing. I found that as soon as the CD quit, hitting 
control-alt-backspace gave Orca. I hope the dist-upgrade will take me to 
Feisty. I found the CD is really slow when booted from it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Pedersen" <Michael Pedersen Sun COM>
To: "Brent Harding" <bharding doorpi net>
Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] making orca quiet during long operations


> Hello Brent,
> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 10:37 -0500, Brent Harding wrote:
> > I finally got my Ubuntu Edgy-eft up after requiring sighted help because 
> > of
> > some unknown issue that made Orca not speak until after I rebooted after
> > installation. I now decided I'd run apt-get dist-upgrade. In doing so, I
> > can't get it to be quiet. Is there any other way to make Orca quit 
> > speaking
> > every screen update to the terminal window besides shutting the speaker 
> > off
> > and letting it speak away with it muted? I know Edgy probably has a real 
> > old
> > version of Orca in it on the CD. I could've used the & sign to make it go 
> > in
> > the background, but then I'd never know when it completes if some GUI
> > windows don't pop up asking questions.
> You can press the orca modifier with the letter "s" to temperarily turn
> off speech.  When you press orca+s again speech will be turned back on
> and if things are still scrolling you will hear this otherwise you can
> just use the flat review keys to exam in the current window.  I think
> you would be better off running feisty though as orca and the whole
> desktop are much newer.
> Hope this helps.
> Mike