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

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

Try ~/.local/share/orca In other words this is .local/share/orca in your 
home directory.


On 2/3/19 2:48 PM, Christopher Gilland via orca-list wrote:
> 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.
>
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