Re: [orca-list] JAWS conflicting with Orca

["Paul O'Rahilly" <paul orahilly gmail com>]

On 4/12/16, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com> wrote:
> It also sounds like you may still need to turn your keyboard and mouse
> over to the virtual machine. In VMware Player for example, control+g
> will do this. I don't think I saw which virtual machine application you
> were running.
>
> There used to be a way to have JAWS go to sleep when certain
> applications had the focus. I used to use this for some of the self
> voicing games I used to run on Windows. It was somewhere in the advanced
> setting in the application specific settings for JAWS. Maybe a Google or
> a look through the JAWS documentation will uncover something.
>
> On 11/04/16 15:25, B. Henry wrote:
> > Yes, I ran a windows VM a few years back, used either jaws or NVDA, and
> > never had to turn off orca or take any action to silence it.
> > You may be doing more things in windows than in Linux thus having a
> > windows host and Linux guest makes the most sense, but if you use both
> > opperating
> > systems more or less equally, and especially if you use Linux most of the
> > time, you should consider changing to a Linux host.
>
> --
> Christopher (CJ)
> chaltain at Gmail
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Thanks for all the feedback.

The following procedure worked for me.
(Sent from my buddy, PT in NCBI)

In order to have JAWS go to sleep when focused on a particular application
 do the following:

 1. Open up the particular application that you don't want JAWS speaking in.
 Make sure that you have an alternative voice already talking as well as
 JAWS. An example of this could be a "Virtual machine" with something like
 "Speakup for linux."
 2. Now use keys, "JAWS key + number row 6." When pressed, wait for the JAWS
 settings center to open up into a "Search edit box."
May first need to press enter to run the JAWS configuration file.
 3. In the "Search settings edit box" type in the word "Sleep" excluding the
 quotation marks. Once you have typed in the word sleep there is no need to
 press the enter key as the search is automatic and will generate its own
 results.
 4. You will have something like the following results so use the "Down
 arrow" to access them:
 *. Enable Braille Sleep Mode, (Not checked).
 *. Sleep mode, (Disable)
 Press the "Down arrow" till you reach the , Sleep mode, (Disable) and press
 the "Spacebar" once to "Enable" it.
 Notes: There is also a "Third" option of "Enable and unload the
 synthesizer". If the above first choice of "Enable" doesn't work totally
 then you could try this one but try and stay with the first option of
 "Enable".
 5. Once you have made your selection, press the "Tab key" till you come to
 "Apply" and press "Spacebar" once then "Tab key" to OK and press "Spacebar"
 once to complete.
 Now whenever you enter into this application whatever it may be JAWS should
 fall silent. Once you "alt + tab" away from it back to another application
 then JAWS should come up talking as normal.