Re: [orca-list] reading in evolution mail and a question about pigeon

[Jose Vilmar Estacio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi Scott,
I don't know if this will help, but sometimes when I lose speech I press 
the right button of the mouse and orca starts to speak again.

On 14-11-2008 12:52, Scott Shade wrote:
> Okay, with some help I got updated to 8.10 and appear to have the 
> latest version of orca on my machine. However, there are a couple 
> things that still happen. If I open a message in evolution and switch 
> to carrot view, I can read the message with the arrow keys or the flat 
> review keys in orca but still can't get the message to read 
> automaticly like in other email clients. ' is there a setting I can 
> change for this? Also, in pigeon when I launch the program, I can hit 
> enter on its icon on my desktop but I then lose speech and end up 
> needing to killall orca and rerun it to get it. Is there a work around 
> or a key that maybe I need to use to make it get focus? I'm wondering 
> if its more of a lack of focus thing so thats why its not speaking 
> cause more often than not, if I hit alt f2 the run box comes up 
> speaking. And finally is it my understanding that we still need to do 
> some stuff to set admin level speech if your using add/remove? I got 
> it to read the screen better with these versions and I can see whats 
> there and available, and chose what changes I want to make, but when I 
> put in my password to let it run I lost speech entirely, and I let the 
> system run for a good while to install whatever it was gona install so 
> finally ended up powering down the system with the power button and 
> restarting to reboot back in to linux. Heh, I think thats all the 
> questions I have for today, but I'm only on my first cup of coffee so 
> far. Thanks folks for all your help.
> Scott