On 12/13/24 18:48, Tom Dial wrote:


On 12/13/24 02:48, gene heskett wrote:
On 12/13/24 03:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 01:53:55AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:

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That was the system config at the original install, and every one of the subsequent installs, nothing I did with the installer prevented it from installing orca and brltty. Text only, several variations of graphical have
been tried.
Hm. Difficult to tell, then.

Another clue perhaps: where does t-bird try to save a draft copy of a msg while editing it?, its driving me crazy with failed to write a draft msg
every 5 minutes.
I'd venture the strong guess that this is a totally unrelated rabbit
hole. In our trade, there are several of them, as you quite certainly
know.

Cheers
Wherever it try's, t-b seemto be interpreting the lag as a possible perms denial. I did an ls -lR on the directory in home where I put the unpacked .xz, and I own every byte of it. The only thing I don't own in /home/gene is .. That's root:root as expected.

The correct permissions for your login directory (/home/gene/) are gene:gene, assuming you log in as "gene" and would have been set to that if you created the user "gene" during install.

/home should have permissions root:root.
That is the case.

I do not know whether that has anything to do with the problems you are having, but correcting it might have some effect and might head off others.

With gnome, orca is installed as a dependency. The presumptively correct way to tame it seems to be via the gnome menu item Settings->Accessibility. Mine has every option set to "off" except "Enable Animations," which causes me no grief.

If brltty is installed and you don't need it, the proper action is "apt purge brltty," which I have done on occasion.

Regards,
Tom Dial


Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

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