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

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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It's been a week or so from last update.  I'll have to update Orca
this evening and see how things go.

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 11:27:34AM -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi Steve:
>
> Are you using the latest Orca from trunk?  We fixed a couple bugs  
> recently that addressed some hanging issues.
>
> Will
>
> Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > Sorry Will, I see I worded that part a bit incorrectly.  What I mean
> > is if speech is lost during a gnome session.  Most often lately when
> > this has been happening is when exitting from Firefox.  That seems to
> > be the most often place for it to happen.  Unfortunately, it doesn't
> > happen all the time so I hesitate to turn on debugging logs and let
> > them roll until it finally breaks.  I could end up with a rather huge
> > file to go throu to find the relevant information.  I know this kind
> > of vague report isn't of much value without specifics so I'll have to
> > see if I can capture a log some time.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 05:03:48PM -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> > > 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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