Re: [orca-list] Orca dropping the first character of a line in the terminal window

[Paul Hunt <paul-leics virginmedia com>]

Yes, it's a bug in gnome-terminal that's been around for years and years 
and never been fixed.

There's a bug relating to it in bugzilla somewhere.


On 30/05/2013 20:02, Vic Beckley wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am very new to Orca and actually very new to Linux in general. I have just
> started using Vinux 4 in the last few weeks. In case you don't know, Vinux 4
> is based on Ubuntu 12.0.4.2 running Gnome desktop 3. So I apologize if this
> has been covered here before.
>
> When I am in a terminal window and Orca is speaking a large batch of text
> that is being written to the terminal window, it often drops the first
> character. One example where it always does this is when installing a new
> program or doing an upgrade. It always loses the first character of the line
> that tells you how many will be upgraded, newly installed, removed or not
> upgraded.
>
> Do others see this? Is there a fix or workaround for it?
>
> Thanks for any help in advance!
>
>
> Best regards from Ohio,
>
> Vic
>
>
>
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