Re: [orca-list] Very strange bugs in orca when using xfce 4.10

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
I am sorry for adding more questions than possible answers but I really 
could not resist and am verry curious.
Something like this frequently happens on my machine with Ubuntu 12.04.
For example if I am waiting for a website in firefox to load and it is 
taking a noticeable time I am left without a feetback for a little while.
While I am curious I tend to press a key or alt+tab to the other window 
and from this moment orca is unable to respond to its keystrokes.
It is even possible to get into this state while trying to use flat 
review in several applications most noticeably firefox and thunderbird, 
also ubuntu application center.
I do have 64 bit machine and I am running 64 bit edition of ubuntu 12.04.
Sometimes restarting orca helps, sometimes restarting the machine is 
needed. I am unable to reliably restart x since I am unable to get the 
login prompt with orca working at all.
After restarting the machine apport comes up with a bunch of reports to 
send. No mather whether I allow it to do its thing or not the result is 
the same. I am occassionally sending out these automatic reports for 
some 3 or 4 months now without noticeable change.
While i was discussing this at the ubuntu accessibility list before a 
few months the suggestion I havent tried is running 32 bit edition of 
ubuntu to compare and make sure this is not the issue.

Also I am currious were you able to get xfsce configured your self or 
had you a sighted help? I feel the whole system is much more laggy than 
windows no mather which version of linux I am running. I have tried 
gnome and unity so far. Perhaps xfsce might be a little bit better in 
this regard. What do you think?

excuse me once more for a lot of questions.

Greetings

Peter


On 7. 11. 2012 19:47, kendell clark wrote:
> Hi all
> Since we're all discussing bugs, let me add in a couple I've found when
> using xfce 4.10 on arch linux. I do have the accessibility settings
> enabled in xfce, so it does work with orca, however there are some hard
> to reproduce bugs. For example, if I close an ap in xfce, terminal, for
> example, orca will randomly crash, causing me to have to restart. Once
> orca is restarted with killall -9 orca killall -9 speech-dispatcher,
> orca --replace, orca starts up fine, but then refuses to read almost
> anything in xfce. The applications menu, any gtk aps I open. The only
> fix that I've seen is to either kill x, which can sometimes work, or
> restart the machine. There are also lots and lots of speech-dispatcher
> segfaults, though i have no idea at all if this is orca related, or a
> speech-dispatcher bug. I'm not using pulseaudio at all, but using
> speech-dispatcher with alsa, and if there is a phrase that is too long,
> perhapse more than a dozen words, the espeak module will segfault out.
> Is there a way I can add debug info to orca so if something segfaults, I
> can provide orca's tracebacks? If so, i'll put it in my script that
> starts orca at login, so it will work from the get go. Sorry for not
> being more help, These bugs are not very predictable but they do happen.
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