Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:44:16 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: drgerlists@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome Accessibilty filters go way randomly, hald problem Message-ID: <1175874256.1627.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <461669e0.UjrXFoCBHRIa/hK4BGBEi5zu@lmrmac.uhw.utoledo.edu> References: <461669e0.UjrXFoCBHRIa/hK4BGBEi5zu@lmrmac.uhw.utoledo.edu>
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--=-7OjM247eyA87zasJCdCT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 11:40 -0400, Dr. Gary E. RAFE wrote: > I have a client who has a Toshiba notebook running > 6.2-R and Gnome 2.16.1_2 from packages. >=20 > So far, her experience has been somewhat aggravating: >=20 > [1] The combination of hald/dbus/policykit would work > once or twice to automount a data CD or USB flash > drive, but would soon stop, complaining about > lack of permissions by the user, particularly when > trying to unmount the device. Should be fixed in the latest version of HAL. >=20 > [2] This model Toshiba has the (in)famous(?) keyboard > bounce problem in X11. The Gnome Accessibility > filter that handles bounced keys takes care of this > when it is enabled. > The trouble is that the accessibility settings > just "go away" at random (while they never > get (re)enabled by themselves). >=20 > In the first case, we put together a simple work-around > after turning off the services of hald & policykit, > but requires a bit more user interaction in a terminal > window to "eject" removeable devices. >=20 > The second problem persists, and I have *no* idea what > Gnome is doing behind-the-scenes during her Gnome session > to disable her previously enable accessibility settings. These settings should be stored in GConf, but I have not played with this feature, so I'm not sure what could be causing the settings ti disappear. There were quite a few accessibility problems fixed in GNOME 2.18. You might consider upgrading. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-7OjM247eyA87zasJCdCT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGFmrPb2iPiv4Uz4cRAlrqAJ0d9/h5Vw0uGdakb3dQA4rI1OmXRgCgnI7L 71vjx2Wj50K6FMON3wdj6s0= =QyLT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-7OjM247eyA87zasJCdCT--
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