why two disable speakup keys?

[Lorenzo Prince]

Hi,
What X screen reader are you using, and where can I find it to experement
around with it a little?

Lorenzo

E Pluribus Unix

Kenny Hitt staggered into view and mumbled:

> Hi.  When you hear speakup say "you turned me off" that means it won't
> automatically read the screen.  Review keys still work but new text sent
> to the screen won't be automatically spoken.  I turn off speakup when
> I'm doing a file download so I can watch the download without speakup
> constantly talking.
>
> When you kill speakup, you don't have review keys either.  I kill
> speakup before I start X so speakup won't fight with the X screen
> reader.  Killing speakup is also good if someone sighted needs to use a
> text console.
>
> The two keys do different things so they are both needed.
>
>           Kenny
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:32:40PM -0400, Christopher Moore wrote:
> > Hello,
> > What is the difference between "you killed speakup" <prt-scrn" and "you
> > turned me off" <ins-enter>.  I think the latter was one of the original key
> > bindings and the <prt-scrn> binding was added later.
> >
> > My question is whether one key to temporarily kill speakup in a terminal
> > session is enough.  I'm not familiar with the differences in how the two
> > keys operate, but perhaps the group could come to a concensus on this.  To
> > me, it is a needless point of confusion for a package whichh generally
> > works quite well.
> >
> > Also, when speakup is "unkilled" it would be helpful to reset the speech
> > parameters to the current values in /proc/speakup (such as rate).
> >
> > Chris
> > --
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