Re: [orca-list] Some crashes and alternatives for Orca 3.28

[Nick Wood <nick microlitesoftware co uk>]

In my experience Orca is extremely stable.

Most of my crashes over the years have been down to ATSpi, though these 
days everything is pretty rock solid running Fedora 28.

Could there be something else in the Ubuntu 18.04 accessibility stack 
causing the crashes?

On a related note: Orca works just fine during the Fedora installer. 
However, unlike Ubuntu there is no drums sound so unless you have enough 
vision to see when the desktop has appeared you won't know when to press 
the Alt+Super+S key to start up Orca.  I usually just wait for about 3 
minutes after booting off a USB media, or get someone sighted to tell me 
when the "Try Fedora" screen is up so I can start Orca.  It would be 
really nice if the Fedora installer could play some kind of sound to let 
us know when it was ready.

Regards,

Nick




On 21/07/18 20:12, Milton wrote:
> Hi luciano,
>
>
> I use a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 with Orca and for my needs I am 
> very happy. Orca is doing great.
>
> Milton
>
>
>
> Op 20-07-18 om 12:59 schreef luciano de souza via orca-list:
> > Hello all,
> > I had been using Orca 3.12 for a long time. It's was stable, but less
> > functional than new versions.
> > Having installed Ubuntu mate 18.04, I've migrated to Orca 3.28. At te
> > functional view of point, it was a revolution. It's really much
> > better. But the stability is not good.
> > orca crashes very often, but it's linked to a particular event: the
> > window switching. I think Orca has already crashed in other events,
> > but it's very seldon. The problem is strongly linked to window
> > switching. When I press alt+tab, Orca crashes very often.
> > So I ask:
> > 1. Is this a known problem? Is there a solution?
> > 2. Is this linked also to Mate? Does it apear in other distros?
> > I often heard ubuntu is not the best distro in respect to
> > accessibility. However, I keep in this distro becose the accessible
> > installer. I try Fedora, but I was not to able to start Orca during
> > the instalation. I try ArchLinux, but the instalation requires best
> > skills, since it ask for advanced settings.
> > In short, I would like to listen to you.
>
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