Re: [orca-list] Orca starts but exits without doing anything in one account

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> First of all I tried running the script from within the gnome desktop
> (in a gnome-terminal) and redirecting the output. The script seemed to
> lock up and gave no output. 

This is actually kind of good news.  It sounds like some desktop app 
somewhere is causing this bad behavior to happen.  A persistent 
organized plan of killing one X client at a time followed by rerunning 
the script might be a way to find it.

> My personal oppinion is that what ever is causing this is well hidden
> and unlikely to be found and may be it would just be best for me to
> install the new distro I was planning to put on this machine at some
> point in the future. Do you feel this might be the best way to go with
> this?

Sounds like a plan to me.  I certainly can't help you much further.  :-(

Good luck!

Will