trouble with orca keystrokes when orca is run from a vertual terminal

Willie Walker William.Walker at Sun.COM
Fri Sep 15 22:08:09 BST 2006


I can confirm it, too.  It's quite bad, and I have no clue how to track
it down. :-(  

Will

On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 16:34 -0400, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> I can confirm this,
> 
> --Al
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Pedersen" <Michael.Pedersen at Sun.COM>
> To: "Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List" 
> <ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 12:31 PM
> Subject: trouble with orca keystrokes when orca is run from a vertual 
> terminal
> 
> 
> > Hi all, I've recently noticed a rather nasty problem with edgy.  I've
> > noticed that if orca is started from a virtual console none of the orca
> > specific keystrokes will work.  If I have orca start either on login or
> > from the launch menu everything works fine.  I believe this has changed
> > quite recently with a ubuntu update in the last 3 or 4 days.  Here are
> > some steps to try if anyone else would like to reproduce this.
> > First log into edgy and switch to a virtual console with for example
> > CTRL+ALT+F1.  First export DISPLAY=:0 and then run orca.  You should
> > find that no orca keystrokes such as the preferences menu or flat review
> > will work.  If you have orca start on log in keys will work as expected.
> > Do any of you on the ubuntu development side of things have any thoughts
> > on this?
> > thanks much
> > Mike
> >
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