Unpredictable notification speech

[Jacob Schmude]

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Hi
I can confirm this one, Ubuntu 9.10 with all latest updates.

On 03/05/2010 10:44 AM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> Hello, wondering if anyone else has seen this and if there's a fix?
> 
> Sometimes notifications via notify-osd speak fine. I've actually come to 
> rely upon these for various bits of functionality. Since I can't just 
> glance over to my IM contacts window, for instance, I use these 
> notifications to notice when a friend I want to talk to logs on.
> 
> But sometimes these notifications don't speak. This seems to happen on a 
> session-by-session basis. For instance, sometimes I'll get a session 
> where notifications speak perfectly. Then, one GDM restart later, they 
> aren't. Also, sometimes notifications stop during a session, and once 
> stopped they never start again.
> 
> I've found my .cache/notify-osd.log. It is receiving events. I see a 
> notify-osd process running. What I don't see when a notification appears 
> are messages in Orca's debug output indicating that any sort of event 
> has been received.
> 
> The challenge here is that I don't know if the notifications are 
> actually appearing on my screen and notify-osd isn't generating 
> accessibility events, or if notify-osd needs some other applet running 
> to display these accessibly. I also can't seem to pin down what makes 
> events start and stop working. I know that they were until recently 
> working quite reliably, and I thought that perhaps a bug had gotten 
> fixed somewhere, but after the latest Karmic updates they've stopped.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone have a fix? This is incredibly 
> frustrating, particularly as I don't know with whom to file a bug. Happy 
> to do so, I just need to know what isn't working.
> 
> Also, I thought that maybe the indicator applets might give some clue, 
> but there are bunches of those, and I'm thinking they aren't it. I also 
> see a notification area applet that I wonder if I should add? It doesn't 
> appear to be running already, even though notify-osd is and seems to 
> have a number of GUI libs linked against it, suggesting that it is 
> responsible for the notification bubbles. Amd if the notification applet 
> is what is responsible, why wouldn't it already be running since 
> notify-osd is fairly Ubuntu-specific?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 

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