Advice

Advice

[Zachary Kline]

   Hi,
    I'd appreciate some advice on the topic of speakup cooperating with other programs.  I know that I asked yesterday for information on how to kill speakup, and for the most part that works as expected.  However, I find that somehow Speakup seems to still be intercepting my keyboard commands in some cases.  I want to use Orca's laptop layout: a requirement because I don't have a keypad.  It uses the capslock key for some of it's functions, the same as speakup.
Any advice here?  When I built my kernel I didn't compile Speakup as a module, primarily because I wanted to get speech at boot as soon as possible.  Should I perhaps go the modular route here?
Thanks,
Zack.

Re: Advice

[Michael Whapples]

I don't know the answer about speakup intercepting the key strokes, but
you can solve it with orca by re-defining the key commands. This can be
found in the orca control panel under its own tab.

From
Michael Whapples
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 11:15 -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
>    Hi,
>     I'd appreciate some advice on the topic of speakup cooperating with other programs.  I know that I asked yesterday for information on how to kill speakup, and for the most part that works as expected.  However, I find that somehow Speakup seems to still be intercepting my keyboard commands in some cases.  I want to use Orca's laptop layout: a requirement because I don't have a keypad.  It uses the capslock key for some of it's functions, the same as speakup.
> Any advice here?  When I built my kernel I didn't compile Speakup as a module, primarily because I wanted to get speech at boot as soon as possible.  Should I perhaps go the modular route here?
> Thanks,
> Zack.
> 

Re: Advice

[Chris Norman]

Well usually, when your GUI loads, pressing print screen kills speakup,
and removes it from that TTY, that's what I do, although I don't yet use
the laptop layout.

HTH,

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 11:15 -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
>    Hi,
>     I'd appreciate some advice on the topic of speakup cooperating with other programs.  I know that I asked yesterday for information on how to kill speakup, and for the most part that works as expected.  However, I find that somehow Speakup seems to still be intercepting my keyboard commands in some cases.  I want to use Orca's laptop layout: a requirement because I don't have a keypad.  It uses the capslock key for some of it's functions, the same as speakup.
> Any advice here?  When I built my kernel I didn't compile Speakup as a module, primarily because I wanted to get speech at boot as soon as possible.  Should I perhaps go the modular route here?
> Thanks,
> Zack.
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