Re: [orca-list] orca suggestion

[Bill Cox <waywardgeek gmail com>]

In Ubuntu Karmic, I bind Shift+Ctrl+O to:

   sh -c "killall speech-dispatcher; orca --replace"

If speech-dispatcher hangs, orca stops speaking and you have to
restart both to get orca running again.  There are other causes for
crashes, though, so now and then I have to log out and in.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com> wrote:
> This sounds like an interesting feature but frankly, Orca should be stable
> enough that it doesn't crash like that and shouldn't require some baby
> sitter app out there to kick it back in again.  Also with the current
> situations that usually cause these crashes, Orca won't start backup
> properly when you do a restart.  I usually have to kill my X session and
> start completely over.  What usually happens lately when restarting Orca, is
> you hear "Welcome to Orca" and then nothing else.  At that, all I can do is
> restart the whole X session.  your suggested monitoring tool would work in
> these situations.
>
>
> On 12/10/2009 03:33 PM, Josh wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a suggestion for Orca. Add a routine to constantly monitor if orca is
> running. this routine only gets invoked when orca is started and running. if
> orca shts off, it will restart itself like voiceover restarts itself for the
> mac.
>
> Josh
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