Re: [orca-list] extreme orca buggyness in 3.2

[Deedra Waters <deedra the-brannons com>]

Well, this works perfectly long as orca doesn't crash, but when orca 
crashes it's almost like orca locks the keyboard completely.  Anyone 
know why this is?

On 09/29/2011 08:15 PM, Kyle wrote:
> This isn't the same as the script in Vinux that resets speech-dispatcher
> and Orca, but I made it myself for exactly that purpose. I'm attaching
> it to this message. I saved my copy as ~/.reset, but you can call it
> whatever you like. Once it's saved where you can find it and is
> executable, e.g. chmod 755, go to system-tools -> system settings and
> select keyboard from the hardware group. Then switch to the shortcuts
> page and tab to the section that says "basic launchers." From there, go
> all the way down to the bottom of the list, and you'll find "custom
> shortcuts." Press "add-toolbutton" and add your reset script. Then find
> it in the list of custom shortcuts, arrow to the shortcut, press enter
> and then press the exact combination of keys you want to use to activate
> it. From that point, you can just close the window with alt-f4, and the
> next time you need to restart Orca and speech-dispatcher, you can press
> the keyboard shortcut you set. If you have any questions or if you get
> lost somewhere in this process, feel free to contact me off-list and
> I'll be glad to help.
> ~Kyle