On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 05:51:25AM -0400, Jonathan Nadeau wrote: > On 9/30/10, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 21:19 -0400, Jonathan Nadeau wrote: > >> Hello list, > >> > >> I just tried out f14 and orca really doesn't work. When you first > >> start orca it does not go through the set up like it normally does. > >> Instead it starts right away like it has already been set up and > >> doesn't let you go through the orca configuration. Orca does start to > >> talk but you can't move around on the desktop or anywhere like the > >> gnome menu or any of the panels. When you press a button on the > >> keyboard orca just says the key you are pressing. It's as if orca > >> doesn't have focus of the desktop and can't move anywhere. I figured I > >> would try to erase the config folder in the home folder by going to > >> the home folder and pressing control h to show the hidden folders and > >> there was no .orca folder to erase I'm not sure what this means but > >> this is what I have found. Thanks for your time and help > > > > Thanks, Jon. Can you check for a ~/.config/orca maybe? > > > > I just ran Orca on my desktop and it popped up the Orca Preferences > > window and played a 'Welcome to Orca' message. Is that what it's meant > > to do? > > -- > > Adam Williamson > > Fedora QA Community Monkey > > IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org > > http://www.happyassassin.net > > > > -- > > desktop mailing list > > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop > > > I don't have f14 installed right now because I need something up and > running that I can use. But I know there is always a .orca folder in > the home folder. So I can't check to see if there is a orca folder in > the .config folder. As far as what you see when you type in orca you > should see that eventually but not right away. When you first type in > orca to start it it should ask you first to choose your language and > then what keyboard set up you want like desktop or notebook along with > some other choices. But it skips all of this and goes straight to the > orca preferences which is what you see. Even though it skips this set > up process you could still set up orca through the preferences but if > you notice like I said even though orca comes up and is talking you > can't get orca to even read the preferences box or get orca to open > it. It seems that that orca doesn't have focus on the desktop and you > can't get it to move around the menus or panel or like I said even get > orca to open the preferences. If you have f13 around somewhere you > will see how orca is supposed to run. Thanks for your help and time. Looks to me like Orca now writes its configs to ~/.local/share/orca -- once I moved ~/.orca and ~/.local/share/orca away, I got the preferences window as I think is expected. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
