[orca-list] Keyboard keys becoming inactive (was Re: Accented letters)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Alexis:

If you can provide the specific list of keys that become inactive, it 
would really help.  In addition, I'm also curious if this is on a laptop 
or a desktop machine, what kind of keyboard you have, which locale you 
are using, and if you've selected the laptop or desktop layout for Orca.

In addition, if you could save the output of "xmodmap -pke" when the 
problem occurs, it might provide a lot of insight.

Thanks!

Will


Alexis Mignon wrote:
> Hi Will,
>
> I'll tell my friend to update Ubuntu and will report how things work.
>
>  As for the keyboard, it's something like the right half of the keyboard 
> that becomes inactive not the keypad...
>
> thank you
>
> Alexis
>
>
>
> 2009/9/11 Willie Walker <William Walker sun com 
> <mailto:William Walker sun com>>
>
>     Hi Alexis:
>
>     Ubuntu Karmic has all the latest GNOME bits, including the fix in
>     Orca for accented letters.  That would be the most expedient way to
>     get the fix.
>
>     For the keyboard problem, which keys are not functioning?  Is it the
>     keypad?  If so, that's because Orca's desktop keyboard layout takes
>     over the keypad for flat review:
>
>     http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/orca-desktop-keys.html.en
>
>     Hope this helps!
>
>     Will
>
>     Alexis Mignon wrote:
>
>         Hi Will,
>
>         Unless there are packages available for Ubuntu, I fear there
>         will be no way to make the tests. I could do it if it was my own
>         computer but it is not. Do you know what will be the version of
>         Gnome coming with the next Ubuntu release ? Is there any
>         workaround for the accent problem ? Is it a general Gnome
>         problem or just in orca ?
>
>         There is another bug we have noticed. Sometimes (we've not found
>         in what precise circumstances), a part of the keyboard becomes
>         inactive and the problem disappears when Orca is shut down. It
>         happened several times during our tests.
>
>         Regards
>
>         Alexis
>
>         2009/9/11 Willie Walker <William Walker sun com
>         <mailto:William Walker sun com> <mailto:William Walker sun com
>         <mailto:William Walker sun com>>>
>
>
>            Hi Alexis:
>
>            Thanks!  Unfortunately, GNOME 2.26 development is over and we'll
>            need to live with the bug in GNOME 2.26.  The good news,
>         however, is
>            that this should be fixed for GNOME 2.28.  If you're able to
>            build/test with the latest GNOME sources (GNOME 2.27.92 is now
>            available), it would be great if you could verify that the fix we
>            made fixes the problem you're experiencing.
>
>            Will
>
>            Alexis Mignon wrote:
>
>                I confirm that the version of orca is the 2.26.1
>
>
>                2009/9/10 Willie Walker <William Walker sun com
>         <mailto:William Walker sun com>
>                <mailto:William Walker sun com
>         <mailto:William Walker sun com>> <mailto:William Walker sun com
>         <mailto:William Walker sun com>
>
>                <mailto:William Walker sun com
>         <mailto:William Walker sun com>>>>
>
>
>                   Hi Alexis:
>
>                   Which version of orca are you using?  You can
>         determine this by
>                   running the following command:
>
>                   orca --version
>
>                   The reason I ask is that we did some work for accented
>         characters
>                   for the upcoming GNOME 2.28 release.
>
>                   Will
>
>                   Alexis Mignon wrote:
>
>                       Hello,
>
>                       We are french and we're trying to setup a computer
>         for  a
>                blind
>                       person and we have some difficulties.
>
>                       The computer is running  a Ubuntu Jaunty. We've
>         installed the
>                       mbrola voices.
>
>                       The tests have been made with openoffice and were
>         reproduced
>                       using gedit. Some accented characters are pronounced
>                correctly
>                       (é,ç), others are not (à,ù,è). We've tried to set the
>                       pronounciation of the letters in the
>         pronounciation tab, e.g.
>                       'à' -> 'a'.
>
>                       It seemed to work for the letter 'à' when we put the
>                cursor at
>                       the begining of the line but not when we use the
>         shortcut
>                       'KP_Add'. In the first case its pronounced as we
>         set in
>                the tabn
>                       in the second case its not pronounced at all. It
>         never worked
>                       for letter 'è'...
>
>                       I first thought of an encoding problem but it doesnt
>                explain why
>                       it works for some letters and doesn't work for
>         some others...
>
>                       We have another problem but which is not directly
>         related to
>                       Orca. But maybe someone had to deal with it.
>
>                       The speech-dispatcher deamon doesn't work properly
>         the first
>                       time it's started (at boot time). From the logs,
>         everything
>                       seems ok until the first time orca tries to
>         connect to it.
>
>                       We have the message saying that sd is litening to the
>                usual port
>                       and then a message sying "Broken pipe" (I'm sorry
>         for not
>                being
>                       able to show the logs but the computer is not mine
>         and the
>                       friend who has it doesnt speak english). Then
>         there seems
>                to be
>                       an error message each time Orca tries to connect
>         to it saying
>                       that no module could be found and not even the
>         dummy one
>                worked.
>
>                       When we simply restart the sd deamon, it works
>         fine after...
>
>                       Thanks by advice for any solution or hint.
>
>                       Regards,
>
>                       Alexis
>
>
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