Re: [orca-list] Chrome makes the Mate desktop to crash

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

Best I can figure, the keyboard stops responding. I still hear sound 
from things like Pidgin, and Orca is even still speaking notifications 
and other messages. But when this happens, the only way to fix it is to 
restart the display manager. The keyboard responds enough to get me to 
another virtual console where I can login and perform the display 
manager restart, but nothing happens on the console where the desktop is 
running at all. No key other than alt+control+function keys works. For 
those who do not use a display manager, the problem would be even worse, 
because there's nothing to restart via systemctl. As I indicated earlier 
though, pressing alt+f2 followed by escape immediately after closing an 
application window like this seems to mitigate the issue, because focus 
returns to the active desktop at that point, and workspaces switch 
without issues when a window has focus.

~Kyle