Re: [orca-list] latest master has problem getting into preferences

[covici ccs covici com]

OK, so I discovered that actually the screen with the orca preferences
came up, but I had to hit escape when in the command window to see it --
I will send you the debug log separately in case you can do anything,
but at least I have a workaround -- gnome is a strange environment.

Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:

> Aha, I misunderstood you. In your original message you stated, "if I
> just login I hear screen reader on, but insert-space does nothing." I
> did not realize you logged in and then pressed Alt+F2 before
> Insert+Space. But given what you say here:
>
> On 11/11/2015 06:23 PM, covici ccs covici com wrote:
> > Well, I am not sure what my distributions stable orca is, I have been
> > using master for quite a while, but I did think that if I typed alt-f2
> > and then hit orca-space, I would get the parameter screen, but I had to
> > actually go into an application to do it.
>
> You think correctly. I just tried Alt+F2, then Insert+Space using master
> and wound up in Orca's preferences dialog. Send me the debug.out you
> capture -- or just look for the traceback that suggests something bad
> happened with settings or your orca-customizations and provide that
> here. If that is indeed what's taking place, the traceback should
> hopefully be pretty obvious.
>
> Thanks (and sorry for whatever I broke!)
> --joanie

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