Sorry but I saw this bug report just now, I have had opened another bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs22/+bug/294211
Marking it as a duplicate. Anyway, I too had tried Orca after upgrading to 8.10 but one difference was that orca was installed before. So it is probably with Orca One workaround I use to get out the situation is to switch keyboard layouts. I set the keyboard shortcut as pressing the two Shifts together. -- emacs22-gtk in ubuntu8.10 freezes gnome when using Alt-tab https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/287577 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs