Hi Kenny Thanks for the response.
Firstly, I appreciate that the best way to log out of Gnome is through the menu options, but when things freeze, as they do in my case, it's better to try that than doing either a soft or hard reset! I tried ORCA -T, and that hung too. On re-entering Gnome, Orca failed to launch at run time and had to be initiated by going to the run dialogue and typeing the Orca command there. I also tried running the graphical setup from the Run dialogue box with no apparent results. Incidentally, I initially tried Orca -h from the terminal and got some text that lead me to believe that spurious options are not caught well in my Orca 2.20.0.0 s as I got a series of lines being presented - I tried capturing the output but nothing came from it. Ian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kenny Hitt Sent: 23 November 2007 16:54 To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Orca Preferences won't launch Hi. Have you tried running orca -t in a terminal? Also, control-alt-backspace is the wrong way to quit the desktop. You should choose quit from the system menu instead. Ctl-alt-backspace is the equivalent of ctl-alt-del to the Xserver. Killing the Xserver like that is only done when you have no other option. Kenny On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 09:43:50PM -0000, Ian Pascoe wrote: > Hi All > > Ever since upgrading to Gutsy I haven't been able to launch the Orca > preferences using <Orca Key Insert> + Space Bar. When I do this I get the > message "Orca Preferences launching - this may take some time" and the > speech disappears, although the screen magnification remains running. > > I have tried launching this from initial login, with focus on the menus and > when in a terminal but to no avail. > > During the upgrade process, I also lost all my setings for Orca which is why > I want to get at the preferences dialogue box. > > I have just tried it again with no success and when quitting the Gnome > desktop using Ctrol + Shift + Backspace, it now sends me into restart and > not back to the login. > > Can anyone suggest anything I can do to get things working again? If not, > I'll wipe the installation and start afresh. > > To an aside., I think the problems arose because during the upgrade a > dialogue appeared that asked if I wanted to remove old docs and folders, or > some such, and I replied yes to this; I'm fairly sure that when upgrading to > Fiesty from Edgey I said no at this point last time .... > > Cheers > > Ian > > > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
