Re: [orca-list] Orca key + q doesn't quit orca

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Steve:

Running "orca -q" will execute the search and destroy logic in the orca 
shell script and it should work fine from a text console.

I'm not sure a hotkey to start Orca would help much since the desktop 
might be locked up at the point you need it.  But, it does depend upon 
where the lock up is happening.

BTW, I am somewhat concerned about the "lose speech in the gnome 
terminal" part of your message.  Do you have a test we can use to 
reproduce the problem?  My apologies if you've already logged a bug on 
this and I've missed it somehow.

Will

Steve Holmes wrote:
> Will this shortcut work from any other console like a text console?  Oh, 
> also, I tried 'killall orca' on several occasions and that never worked. 
>  I don't think Orca populates a pid file so killall never works for me. 
>  I always have to do a 'ps ax |grep orca' and then kill -9 that process 
> number I got from the previous ps command.  I need to do this quite 
> often when I lose speech in the gnome terminal.  Personally, I want 
> speech available to me when doing these things.  I have no clue where I 
> am when Orca locks up like that.  So this method has always worked for 
> me.  Then after killing orca, I can go back to the gnome window, press 
> alt-f2 and wait five seconds and then type 'orca' and once dialog is 
> dismissed, Orca will usually start back up.  I would emagin a hotkey to 
> start Orca would come in real handy here.
>
> Jose Vilmar Estacio de Souza wrote:
> > You can also type:
> > orca -q
> > to kill orca.
> >
> > On 05-02-2009 17:57, Storm Dragon wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > Hmm, so not a simple matter of wrong key press then.  I think you can 
> > > open terminal and type:
> > > killall orca
> > > if you absolutely have to close it.
> > > Seems like an interesting bug.
> > > Storm
> > > Check out the Storm Dragon blog:
> > > http://www.stormdragon.us/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 05:35 -0200, Jose Vilmar Estacio de Souza wrote:
> > > > Hi, my mistake!
> > > > In fact it is capslock+q.
> > > > However when I press capslock+q orca doesn't quit, it reads the 
> > > > title bar.
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > On 05-02-2009 05:16, Storm Dragon wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >  Hi,
> > > > >  That should be capslock+q unless they have changed it.
> > > > >  HTH
> > > > >  Storm
> > > > >  On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 04:31 -0200, Jose Vilmar Estacio de Souza 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >>  Hi all,
> > > > >>  When I press kps_lock + q to quit orca, orca reads the title bar 
> > > > instead
> > > > >>  of quit.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>  The keyboard layout is configured to laptop and I'm running 
> > > > latest orca
> > > > >>  from trunk.
> > > > >>  Any ideia?
> > > > >>
> > > > >>  Thanks.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > >
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