Orca not stopping talking

[Willie Walker]

One more data point: the problem doesn't seem to exist on Solaris, so
I'm guessing this might be specific to Ubuntu.  :-(  I'm CC'ing the
Ubuntu Accessibility List to see if anyone there might have an idea.

Furthermore, in experimenting with this, we noticed that my laptop (a
Toshiba Tecra where I need to chord Fn+F11 to turn NumLock on and off)
exhibits the dreaded "you must monkey with AccessX settings to bring
events back to life even if you reboot the machine" whereas a system
with a regular keyboard (more specifically, a Ubuntu system with a Sun
keyboard) will recover just fine if you turn off NumLock.  

Will

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 12:14 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> Well...to add more to this...restarting the X Server and even rebooting
> didn't solve the problem.  I needed to go into the Keyboard Preferences
> dialog and muck around with AccessX settings - I enabled StickyKeys and
> then disabled it and things seemed to come back to life.  Very very odd.
> 
> We're looking at this on Solaris to see if the problem exists there,
> too.  If it doesn't, I think this might be a Ubuntu problem, but I have
> no idea how or what is making this happen.
> 
> Will
> 
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 10:27 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Very odd.  I just checked with debugging enabled in Orca and it seems as
> > though Orca no longer get keyboard events from the AT-SPI once you've
> > mucked with the NumLock key.  As a result, Orca won't interrupt speech
> > on a key press since it's not getting any key presses.
> > 
> > I can also verify this with the src/tools/record_keystrokes.py module in
> > the orca sources, and it looks like NumLock is toxic for me - once I've
> > enabled it, I'm hosed and need to restart the X server.
> > 
> > Will
> > 
> > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 12:37 +1000, Bart Bunting wrote:
> > > Lorenzo,
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the tip, it seems that that was my problem!
> > > 
> > > Does anyone know why this is so?  Is it intended behaviour or a bug or
> > > sideefect?
> > > 
> > > Wow Orca is much more useful when you can stop speech!
> > > 
> > > Bart
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Lorenzo Taylor writes:
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> > >  > It seems that if the numlock is on Orca will not interrupt.  I'm not
> > >  > sure why this is or if this is even your problem, but the last time this
> > >  > happened to me I found out my numlock was on.  If in fact it is on and
> > >  > you turn it off the problem should go away.
> > >  > 
> > >  > HTH,
> > >  > Lorenzo
> > >  > - -- 
> > >  > I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse.
> > >  > - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment)
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