Re: [orca-list] Evolution Questions

["William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209" <wacker octothorp org>]

I can't understand why it would be necessary to kill your orca session as 
root, since you presumably started it as yourself.  What happens when you 
try to kill it from another console as yourself?


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Bill in Denver

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Steve Holmes wrote:

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> Hey Adam, thanks for the tip of using a root login on another
> console.  Yes, Speakup has saved my bacon numerous times when Orca
> blew up.
>
> Evolution  seems to work ok with local folders and it did seem to work
> good with gmail; it was mainly my local IMAP server where it (I guess)
> was taking so long to do its thing but no speech, no progress, that
> really sucked because I had no idea what was going on.  Plus the big
> problem if you alt tab away from some dialogs, you can't get back into
> them.  I don't know if that is an Orca bug or the way the dialogs are
> posted or what.  It kind of reminds me of the old system modal dialogs
> in windows where most screen readers couldn't read them at all.  At
> least Window-Eyes got that cleared up manyyears ago.
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:16:38PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> > Funny, I've not had any of these problems with Evolution.  Of course, I've
> > never used it in any way other than where it pulls the local spool folders
> > into itself at startup.  I already had getmail set up from cron to
> > download my mail, so I found it easiest to have Evolution just read the
> > spool.  I did have problems when I had it reading the spool directly
> > rather than moving it into its own internal folders.  In that case, there
> > were a lot of errors with database corruption.  With the current setup, it
> > works reasonably well for me.  The most important thing is to make sure
> > caret mode is on in the view menu.  After that, use F6 to move between
> > the folders, messages, and preview pane.  The preview pane works best for
> > me, as it doesn't get the cursor stuck in the message header.  Still, I
> > agree that some progress messages would be nice.
> >
> > Instead of resorting to control-alt-backspace, try logging in as root on
> > another virtual console, then doing "killall orca."  Then, go back to your
> > X session, hit alt-F2, and type "orca" to restart it.  I've also found it
> > occasionally necessary to kill and restart speech-dispatcher.  This is
> > very rare, however.
> >
> >
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