Another strange Speakup quirk?

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 01:44:32PM -0700, Gaijin wrote:
> Every time I accidently 
> press the "Windows Start" key, it locks up the system as if the Insert 
> key were being pressed.  Pressing the Start key again releases it.  Is 
> this by design, or something weird with my keyboard?

The winkey/startmenu key is meant to act like the insert key on the numpad. so, for
example, pressing the winkey, while typing the letter i, would read
the current line. As far as I know, pressing winkey itself shouldn't
lock it into that mode, unless you're hitting the letter z as well,
which would lock it, until you press winkey+z again to unlock. This
feature is very handy on laptop keyboards, where you might not have a
numpad insert, or which might not be convenient to use if you do have it.

> 	By the way, does anyone know how to automate speakupconf on 
> startup?  I tried sticking it in /etc/rc.local in Debian, but the sucker 
> won't load settings.  The script calls it without errors though, so I 
> dunno what is going on with it.  The script is "set -e", so it should be 
> aborting on any errors, but it seems to run fine.  I'll check the friggin logs, and if I can't find an answer there, I guess I'll puzzle through the script and see if I can't fix the damned thing to work on startup, rather than on a per-user basis.  Maybe add the ability to specify the saved configuration file if it doesn't have the ability, so I can do something like:
> 
> $ speakupconf load /etc/speakup.conf
> 
> ...and put it in rc.local.

I'm using speakupconf in my debian system's /etc/rc.local without
problems, and it loads the settings just fine on startup as is.

Greg


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