Re: [orca-list] intro and observations on Archlinux/Mate

["Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona" <hanksmith hanksmith net>]

my room mate has one of those old dells and I can hear that thing on the 
other side of the house.
omg is it loud

On 8/22/2014 8:31 AM, B. Henry wrote:
> I had a few of those Dells, the mini desktop design in my case. They ran gnome2 using distros quite well. Of 
> course you
> can't multitask seriously with a single core CPu, but if you kept only the apps running you had to have the 
> Pentium4
> processsors were plenty fast enough at 2.8GHz. They run really hot though, even with the crazy loud fan dell 
> put in them.
> Should have used larger fans to cut down on the RPMNs a bit. Those boxes were also really loud unless you ran 
> them in a
> fridge.
> I even managed to run a windows XP VM as a guest OS on a Linux host.
> So, my point is yeah, Mate should be fine on that hardware.
>   
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 09:12:33AM -0400, Kyle wrote:
> > I have a laptop with 512MB RAM and an older Sempron processor I believe
> > around 2GHz, but I need to check it again to be sure of the processor
> > speed. It runs MATE perfectly. I also have an even older Dell Optiplex,
> > one of those large-ish ones from about 2003 or 2004 with a Pentium IV
> > running at 2GHZ, and upgraded from 512MB RAM to 1GB. It also boots up
> > very fast and runs MATE in a much more snappy way than I would expect. I
> > also have it running on an HP box that is very similar in specs to
> > yours, So your box is definitely beefy enough to run MATE with no
> > trouble at all.
> >
> > Your specific problem is some kind of bug in Thunderbird's interaction
> > with Orca. I'll explain it a little here, but I'll be sending in a more
> > detailed report complete with a debug.out in a separate thread.
> > Essentially, what is happening is that occasionally, Thunderbird is
> > losing speech, usually while reading a message, but it also happens when
> > composing a message. It seems that the recent focus mode fixes in Gecko
> > applications has somewhat reduced the occurrance of this problem when
> > composing a message, but it is still there. The problem is that it seems
> > to happen at random. When composing a message, my work-around has been
> > to attempt to close the message and then just cancel the save window.
> > Your best options if Thunderbird freezes while reading a message are to
> > either close the message and reopen it or to restart Orca. If it happens
> > in the message list, I've been able to move to the folder tree using
> > shift+tab, move down to the next folder, move back up and then tab back
> > into the message list. Otherwise, restarting Orca also helps there. As I
> > said, I will either send a detailed report in a separate thread, or I'll
> > put it in the bug tracker. I will note here however that Thunderbird
> > 24.0 may not help much, as it does have the message list sync issue. My
> > work-around for that was to go to the folder list, move to another
> > folder, come back to the folder I was working in and go back to the
> > message list every time I deleted a message, but the upgrade certainly
> > made my workflow easier in spite of the occasional loss of speech. That
> > said, I was able to delete messages in a sort of batch operation by
> > using the shifted arrow keys to select all the consecutive messages I
> > wished to delete, deleting them all at once and then doing my little
> > work-around, which caused me to have to do the work-around slightly less
> > often. Hope all this helps a little, and of course, welcome to the list.
> > ~Kyle
> > http://kyle.tk/
> > --
> > "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
> > Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
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