Re: [orca-list] Orca - some conflicts

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Helios:

We have made a number of fixes in Orca since the 2.24.1 release.  You 
might try downloading/installing Orca from the gnome-2-24 branch in svn. 
 It is compatible with GNOME 2.24 and has fixes for a number of things, 
including a hang we were running into.

It's been a while since I've developed on Ubuntu (I've moved to 
OpenSolaris), but the following commands *might* work.  Type them at 
your own risk -- I won't be able to help you recover.

sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-orca
sudo apt-get install gnome-common subversion
svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/trunk orca
cd orca
./autogen.sh --prefix=`pwd`/bld
make
make install

This will build/install orca into the 'bld' directory under the area 
where you downloaded the orca sources from svn and will not replace the 
one you have installed on your machine.  You can run bld/bin/orca to run 
the new version and see if it behaves any better.

Will

PS - the Nautilus issue may be due to opening a directory with lots and 
lots of files: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547880

Helios wrote:
> Hi list,
> as long as I installed new updated system on my sister´s notebook
> there are some conflicts. Although running new machine - HP 550
> notebook with 1 GB ram, Nautilus is sometimes very slow and often
> freezes or says, that is not responding, Orca also. Braille indication
> is off. When running Orca via terminal, it seems to be a little bit
> better, but there are some messages. Orca sometimes also freezes while
> terminal window remains blank. I thought that there is problem
> somewhere in Gnome but after looking on the messages, Orca seems to be
> the cause. For me is of course no problem to restart Orca choosing
> "Force quit" but I have no idea to do this without need to see what is
> on the screen.
>
> It is a pity that it is not possible to run Orca with other WM than
> Gnome. In my opinion, Xfce would be perfect - easy, light and fast.
> She said she is missing the Sam Linux (Pclinuxos with Xfce instead
> KDE) which she had on her old PC.
>
> PS: One off-topic question: I installed Pcman File Manager which seems
> to work OK with Orca. I would like to set it as default file manager
> in Gnome instead Nautilus but did not succeed. I tried to set the
> folder parameter "open with" and choose pcman, but folders are still
> opening in Nautilus. Could anybody give me an advice?
>
> thanks
>
> Heliooos
>
> PS: I attached some outputs from terminal generated while running
> Orca. I hope that we will find the problem.
>
> HP 550, Pclinuxos Gnome 2009 TR6
> gnome-desktop-2.24.2-1pclos2007
> espeak-1.29-1pclos2007
> gnome-speech-driver-espeak-0.4.21-1pclos2007
> libespeak1-1.29-1pclos2007
> nautilus-2.24.1-3pclos2007
> orca-2.24.1-1pclos2007
> kernel-2.6.26.8.tex1-1-1pclos2007
>
>
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