Re: [orca-list] AT-SPI registry not found dialogue

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> On my laptop I sometimes encounter the AT-SPI registry not started 
> dialogue
> after invoking startx from the shell. So far as I can tell, there 
> seems to be
> no means of closing this dialogue, and proceeding with the loading of 
> the
> Gnome desktop, from the keyboard.

Yeah - it comes up in the upper left corner of the screen and you need 
to push your mouse there in order to give it focus since no window 
manager is running at the time.  Kind of a pain, but once there, I 
*think* you can interact with the dialog via the keyboard.  There are 
also other dialogs that appear, such as when you login as root or into 
a failsafe session, that have similar issues.

I've thought about proposing a solution to these, such as forcing the 
dialog to appear in the center of the display, which is where the mouse 
comes up when the X server starts, or forcing a mouse move over the 
window.  Not really quite sure if anyone would be interested in 
implementing these, but I'd really like to see something done.  I 
really don't like using the mouse.  :-)

> This is a timing issue. From what I discovered via a Web search, 
> gnome-session
> waits for 5 seconds before concluding that the registry hasn't 
> started, then
> presents this dialogue. On my laptop, possibly due to the slowness of 
> the hard
> drive, this timeout, I suspect, sometimes expires.

Li recently did some work in this space.  I've CC'd him so he can 
comment.

Will