[orca-list] Focus issues, and resetting/backing up Orca

[Christopher Gilland <clgilland07 gmail com>]

1. Though Googling, luck of the draw, I've not found anything really 
specific on the wiki about this. Either I'm just a really bad googler, 
or it's not that well known... Hopefully, the former. Anyway, if Orca 
ever screws up somehow, I recall way back in the days there being a 
directory, I think it was a hidden directory in your home directory 
which you could delete with RM which then would force Orca to reset 
itself completely to default settings as if you'd never launched it 
before. I thought the directory was just called .orca, but when I look 
with ls, even showing hidden files and directories, I don't see anything 
of sort, so my guess is, on the latest pre master, that must have 
changed. So, is there an easy way to accomplish this? Also, is there a 
directory or such I can back up to a safe place, then re-copy over, if I 
ever install to a new system, that will then allow me to migrate my Orca 
settings from one machine to another, provided that I'm on exactly the 
same build?


2. So, as for the focus issues, earlier, I was trying to get my private 
IP address assigned by the DHCP of my Linksys router. I'm not sure if, 
or not this is normal, I'd not think it is, and I doubt this can be 
reproduced. Again, I'm always the unlucky swan in the pond, LOL, but any 
who, I went into settings, and was trying then to tab over to the list 
view in Gnome 3, of settings areas like network, etc.


So, I got to where it said network, and hit enter, but then, after that, 
Orca got so sluggish I almost had to reboot the machine. Restarting Orca 
didn't really seem to help. I've been able now for about 5 times 
consecutively in a row to reproduce this odd behavior. If it matters, am 
using laptop layout, modifier key being caps lock. This notebook machine 
doesn't have a physical insert key, nor a numpad, so I can't test 
desktop layout with it.


I did try flat review at this point, but that didn't help. It still was 
really sluggish, and didn't seem to read much anything. The system seems 
to be totally up to date, and am running Gnome 3, latest master branch 
build of Orca, and Ubuntu 18.10 64 bit.


So, I guess firstly, my question is, in Gnome 3, with wifi, is there a 
reliable way to see your private IP with the GUI? I know about ifconfig 
on the command line, but would rather not go that route. Secondly, 
within Settings, again though I doubt it, has anyone else on Gnome 3 
experienced this with Orca, and if so, did you ever figure out a way to 
get around it?


Chris.