[orca-list] FW: can't start the orca preferences gui nor setup new preferences

["Ian Pascoe" <softy lofty ilp btinternet com>]

Hi Will

Nope, Alt + Tab doesn't show anything, nor can I see anything in any type of
window using the magnifier window; don't know if there's anything behind the
magnifier window though that isn't being picked up for whatever reason.

To an aside, from the terminal should the command orca -h throw an error?
When I was trying to find help from orca and did this command, I got an
error back which indicated that the -h was not trapped properly.  I can grab
the exact error if you want.

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: William Walker Sun COM [mailto:William Walker Sun COM]
Sent: 02 January 2008 20:48
To: Ian Pascoe
Cc: Orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] can't start the orca preferences gui nor setup
new preferences


Hi Ian:

I have a feeling it is going to be very hard to figure out what's
causing this hang.  Do you have an application running as any other user
(e.g., root) that is displaying a window on your desktop?

Will

Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Hi Will
>
> Just to echo from my previous postings - I have the same problems.
>
> Cannot launch either the GUI or Text based preferences, just hangs, but
have
> speech and magnifier working.
>
> The workaround posted shortly after Gutsy was launched, Ubuntu being my
> distro, of ensuring that focus was on the desktop somewhere, didn't work
> either.
>
> Tomas suggested it might be a conflict with Gnerpernicus (sorry for the
> spelling!), but according to a sighted user, it's not running.
>
> Just to re-iterate, this happened for me after the distro upgrade  to
Gutsy.
>
> Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org]On
> Behalf Of Willie Walker
> Sent: 02 January 2008 16:12
> To: Rui Batista
> Cc: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] can't start the orca preferences gui nor setup
> new preferences
>
>
> Hi Rui:
>
> This is strange.  It sounds like something Orca is depending upon is
> hanging.  Have you tried running "orca --text-setup"?  If that hangs,
> does "test-speech" work for you?
>
> Will
>
> Rui Batista wrote:
>> HI all,
>>
>> I'm using the latest trunk revision of orca but the problem ocures with
>> any orca version I've tested (2.20.2, 2.21.4 etc...)
>>
>> When I try to access the orca preferences with insert+space orca
>> hangs...no log, no error, nothing at all....the best I found was
>> something like
>>
>> process killed on line 92 of /usr/bin/orca...
>>
>> Worce: if I try do make a new setup (hopping my configuration are
>> corrupted or something) orca does not start at all.... removing
>> the .orca directory does not resolve the problem....
>>
>> I've been editing my configuration in usersettings.py but that is not
>> easy lol and the gui don't make typing errors like me lol.... does
>> anyone have suggestions?...
>>
>> Best REgards:
>
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