Re: Orca speech not interrupting

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Willie Walker writes:
> 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.
Ouch. So, this is a pretty serious problem for any Speakup user coming
in off a console because Speakup maps the numeric keypad with NumLock
off for screen review. Unfortunately, Speakup does not yet automatically
cease functioning in the GUI, either.

Willie: I would suggest that Speakup's behavior of putting screen review
with NumLock off makes somewhat more sense, as that leaves the numerics
available for data entry in spread-sheets, etc. But, I certainly have no
idea what issues that might introduce for Orca.

So, there are a couple of gotchya's here to resolve. Ergo I've cc'd Kirk
Reiser into this note again.

Janina

> 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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