Re: [orca-list] Loss of Speech After Idle

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Steve:

Under the "Preferences" menu (usually available via the "System" menu on 
the gnome-panel, which you can get to via Alt+F1 and a couple right 
arrows on many distributions), there's a "Screensaver" menu item.  When 
you choose this, the screen saver preferences dialog should appear.  In 
that dialog, there should be a "Lock screen when screensaver is active" 
checkbox.  If all works well, unchecking that checkbox and closing the 
dialog should disable the lock option.  I hope.  :-)

I'm not sure about the lock option available from the logout dialog, but 
I suspect it would probably override any setting you made in the 
screensaver preferences dialog.  That is, I'd guess it would lock the 
screen no matter what.

Hope this helps,

Will

Steve Holmes wrote:
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> What is the best solution for the present time? Can screen savers be
> turned off so it doesn't pop up? If so, I don't mind doing that in my
> home environment.  I wonder what happens when someone locks the
> screen? does that bring up the same situation?  I'm referring to the
> lock option available from the logout dialog.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:46:23AM -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hi Steve:
> >
> > The GNOME screen saver does indeed present a challenge.  There's a long 
> > history into the exploration of the problems at this bug:
> >
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350716
> >
> > The work is maybe a little bit beyond our grasp, but we try to prod the 
> > team from time to time on this bug to see if they can provide a fix.  I 
> > think voices from the community may also help give this bug some attention.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > > After leaving my machine idle for some time this morning, I came back
> > > to a silent machine.  I haven't changed any defaults yet as far as any
> > > screen savers or any of that is concerned but I couldn't figure out
> > > how to get speech back if at all.  I did a ctrl-alt-backspace to get
> > > me out of gnome and that took me back to the regular console where I
> > > started over again with no further incident.  But I hadn't left the
> > > machine idle since either.
> > >
> > > Should I be looking for anything special concerning screen savers or
> > > did I run into a bug some place?
> > >
> > > Dropline Gnome 2.20, Orca 2.20.3, Slackware 12.0 using
> > > speech-dispatcher directly from Orca backend.
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