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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

I can reproduce this by doing a "find /" in gnome-terminal.  What's 
happening is that Orca is reading output as it goes flying by.  To avoid 
this, you can do things such as:

1) Redirect the output to a file
2) Minimize the offending window
3) Give focus to another window (Alt+Tab)
4) Disable speech (Insert+s) before doing a command you know will 
produce lots of output.  Insert+s again will re-enable speech.

Dealing with this in more automatic creative ways may be a challenge, 
since we don't really know how much output we're going to get from these 
kinds of commands.  People also want to get presentation of one and 
two-line output, so we cannot just always disable speech.

I'd like to hear what ideas people have for how we might address this.

Will

Paul Hunt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get this all the time with Orca when in gnome-terminal.  If I do a command 
> that produces a lot of text like apt-get or commands for building packages. 
> This is on Ubuntu Hardy RC.
>
> Haven't seen it outside of gnome-terminal but I haven't been using Orca that 
> long.  Is there anything that can be done to stop it happening?
>
> Paul
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
> To: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny hittsjunk net>
> Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] unable to stop speech with Orca 2.22.
>
>
> > 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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