Re: [orca-list] unable to stop speech with Orca 2.22.

[Kenny Hitt <kenny hittsjunk net>]

hi.  No, I've also had it happen in Firefox and pidgin.

          Kenny

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 07:37:10AM -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi Kenny:
>
> This is sometimes an indication that the AT-SPI registry daemon has died 
> or that an AT-SPI call that Orca made has hung (*&*&^#*$ CORBA doesn't 
> seem to have timeouts for calls).  Are you experiencing this solely when 
> running a command from gnome-terminal?
>
> Will
>
> On Apr 23, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Kenny Hitt wrote:
>
> > Hi.  It looks like I can get Orca into a state where I can't silence  
> > speech.  The first time it happened
> > was when I ran a fetchmail command that produced a large amount of  
> > output.  Pressing control didn't stop speech.  repeated presses of  
> > control didn't work either.
> > Switching to another window with alt-tab also didn't help.  I was  
> > finally forced to do a killall orca to get speech to stop.
> > The second time it happened was because I held down the read line key  
> > (keypad 8) on the desktop layout.  Once again,
> > I tried everything I could think of to stope speech with no results.   
> > I finally had to killall orca to get it to stop.
> > Can anyone else reproduce this problem?
> > I'm running Orca 2.22.1, gnome-speech 0.4.18.  I'm using the espeak  
> > driver.
> > Before I try to file a bug, I'd like to hear from others to see if  
> > this is a general problem or something specific to my setup.
> >
> >           Kenny
> >
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