Thanks Glen, I'll have to lookup how to unload speakup since its part of the kernel, not sure about that. Will check it out Interesting that you get the same problems with orca, I havn't mucked with orca enough yet to have that happen Thanks Tom Fowle wa6ivgtf@xxxxxxxxxxx On Mon, Mar 9, 2015, at 07:54 PM, Glenn / Lenny wrote: > Hi Tom, > Can't you unload SpeakUp and reload it? > I have found that when Orca does this, on an Asus netbook, I can either > unload Orca and run it again, or since it is a Gnome desktop, I can go > into > a terminal and run > sudo restart gdm > and it restarts the desktop. > HTH. > Glenn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Fowle" <wa6ivgtf@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 9:45 PM > Subject: stuck shiftlock? > > > Hi all, > Running speakup on Debian Wheezie with a doubletalk on an old asus > machine. > Occasionally when I accidentally hit shiftlock, it sticks in lock and > nothing I know to do releases it short of reboot. > Logout and re-login has no effect. > > This happened on an older PS2 keyboard and on this new USB keyboard. > > I should be using the speakup desktop configuration not the laptop > setup, so > shiftlock should not be bothered by speakup? > Or is there something in Debian defaults I need to correct? > If it's not speakup, any other ideas? > > Thanks > > Tom Fowle > wa6ivgtf@xxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup