Re: Problem applying Orca settings in testing

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com>]

Hi all.

Another user reported that here:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/issues/584

However, I'm unable to reproduce it, and Orca's own logging is showing
nothing of use. The reporter of the issue says the problem also happens
with older versions of Orca, such as Orca v46. So something presumably
changed somewhere else, but Orca shouldn't hang. Therefore if someone is
able to help pin down what is going wrong and could add the information
to the bug, that would be great.

Thanks!
--joanie

On Sat, 2025-04-05 at 15:59 -0700, Tyler Spivey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running Debian testing with MATE, latest packages as of now, orca 
> 48.0-3, speech-dispatcher 0.12.0-2, espeak-ng-data 1.52.0+dfsg-5.
> When I activate the Orca preferences with Orca+Space, then press Apply, 
> I hear screen reader settings reloaded, then I have no more speech after 
> that. The only way to fix it is to kill speech-dispatcher and press 
> Alt+Super+S several times.
> 
> I'm using speech-dispatcher with eSpeak NG.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tyler