Re: [orca-list] pinpointed problem with orca being unresponsive

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

It may not even be Orca that's having the problem. For instance I have
exactly this same problem with Speakup driving a Doubletalk LT over the
serial port.

What speech are you reporting this against?

Jon writes:
> I can confirm that gnome-terminal behaves as described below, on my 
> machines.
>
> While small/medium amounts of data is output to the terminal it is still 
> possible to get Orca to quieten down.
> It seems once it reaches over a certain amount, (or refreshed/outputted 
> rappidly), Orca fails to fall scilant.
> I have seen this occur when dist-update for example, or encoding with 
> lame/mencoder/oggenc.
>
> If i regularly press control to scilance it will empty the buffer and 
> read more recent data, wheras if it is left for a longer period to read, 
> pressing control will not make Orca catch up.
>
> -Jon
>
> On Wed 25/07/2007 at 22:50:01, Mike Reiser wrote:
> > I believe I have pinpointed the place where the unresponsiveness/slow down of orca occurs.  It seems to 
> > happen after I go into the terminal window.  When I go into terminal, orca works good for a bit but then 
> > it will start reading for example, and when I press control to silence speach it does not respond.  Also, 
> > it fails to read when I read by character in the window.  It continues this behavior if I leave terminal 
> > open and go to another application.  However, if I exit out of terminal and press the key to bring up the 
> > orca preferences, orca starts behaving normally.  I'm using orca2.19.5 although this behavior has 
> > happened since I installed ubuntu.  I can verify that this is not because of ubuntu running in the vm 
> > session, as it happened on a friend of mine's computer and he has ubuntu dool booting.  Just was 
> > wondering if anyone else has experienced this and can recommend a fix?  
> >  Mike
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