Re: Orca speech not interrupting

[Cody Hurst <churst35 verizon net>]

Hi will,

  What I ended up doing was enabling root which by the way, while logged
in as a user then killing orca, switching to root sudo su then running
orca will provide access to all root priviledged programs. anyways, I
logged into root via enabling it in gdm, then deleting my account, then
recreating it after deleting my home directory I don't know why it
doesn't delete it automatically, logging in and all was well. I never
thought of the num lock key since I always used it for flat review but
it's definiately possible.

I figured I'd also add a few more notes unrelated to this issue...
1. I think a lot of people like using virtual machines. I know that a
lot of people use vmware, but a great totally accessible alternative to
vmware which is free is Qemu. its terminal based and it works wonders
for me. its much faster then vmware, but orca won't work in the actual
virtual machines obviously, but I love it.

2. I wanted to know, without making new email threads, how to enable gdm
accessible? I looked in the gdm prefs and check the box for accessible
login, but never got speech, and wasn't sure what key combo I needed to
press. Bye the way, thanks for having blank lines spoken! orca is the
best thing since sliced bread.....well actually since jaws...

Cody
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 14:24 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi Cody:
>
> Is it possible that you might have accidentally hit the NumLock key on
> your keyboard?  I've found that this key can be the kiss of death when
> it comes to the AT-SPI infrastructure emitting keyboard events (Orca
> interrupts speech on keyboard events).  And by kiss of death, I mean it
> kills them even if you reboot.
>
> I'm not sure where this bug lies, but the only way I've been able to
> recover from this dastardly behavior is to enable SlowKeys and then
> disable it.
>
> Will
>
> On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 12:03 -0500, Cody Hurst wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >   Last night I just started having this problem where even after a
> > reboot and I start orca the control key does not silence speech, and
> > speech won't work in the terminal. I installed qemu last night but I
> > don't think that is the issue. whats going on here. I also tried killing
> > orca and festival from the terminal but still no go.
> >
> > Cody
> >
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