Re: [orca-list] Orca on my Fedora 17: big-time key problem

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I'm not sure if it's important or not, but are you using the laptop
keyboard layout? Sounds like Orca thinks your Orca key is depressed.
Assuming you're using the laptop keyboard layout, try toggling it off
with Orca+backspace followed by the caps-lock key. I've gotten my system
into this state from time to time, and I'm not sure how I've gotten out
of it. What about recycling Orca?

On 03/10/12 11:38, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I've been using my new Linux machine with some decent luck since Sunday.
>  It's running Fedora 17, as the subject line says, and Orca 3.4
> something.  I presume the version of Gnome is essentially the same.
>
> This morning, somehow, the keystrokes screwed up.  When I hit the
> spacebar, for example, I get Orca preferences; even then, I must hit
> escape to actually get to the various preferences.  When I hit the
> letter t by itself, I often get the time, and this should require using
> the Orca key.  The pass-through should require the Orca key plus the
> backspace, but pressing the backspace alone does this today.  In order
> to type a command, I had to precede each of its keystrokes with the
> backspace.  All of this has made using that machine mighty difficult.
>
> I seem to have been using Firefox when this occurred.  I do not know how
> it happen, though.  I checked the list of key bindings for Orca, and all
> seemed as it should.
>
> Any help would be very greatly appreciated.  Thanks!
>
> Al
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