Re: [orca-list] Keys stop working sometimes

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Bill:

Cool.  I'm glad you found it.  But, the question remains about how
structural navigation kicked in, especially for gnome-terminal.  That
should not be happening.  :-( 

Will

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 10:13 -0500, Bill Cox wrote:
> That was it!  Sorry for being such a noob, Willie.
>
> Bill
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Willie Walker <William Walker sun com> wrote:
> > HI Bill:
> >
> > It sounds like structural navigation might be kicking in for some reason.
> >  The next time you run into this situation, try pressing Orca+z to toggle
> > structural navigation and see if the problem goes away.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > PS - I'm on vacation the rest of the year but may check e-mail from time to
> > time.
> >
> > On Dec 22, 2009, at 6:34 AM, Bill Cox wrote:
> >
> > > On Ubuntu, both Karmic and Lucid, sometimes Orca interferes with the
> > > keyboard.  For example, just now I was typing in a gnome-terminal, and
> > > suddenly the L key stopped working.  Other keys worked fine, but the L
> > > key pretended it was broken, which made typing 'ls' turn into 's'.
> > > This also happens while in firefox a lot.  Whenever it happens, I type
> > > Shift+Ctrl+O, which restarts speech-dispatcher and Orca, and the
> > > problem goes away.
> > >
> > > Has anyone else experienced this problem?  Anyone have any idea what's
> > > causing it?  Just a guess as to which package would be helpful, so I
> > > can figure out where to start debugging.  Intermittent bugs like this
> > > can be a real PITA to debug.
> > >
> > > BIll
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