Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan brings PC to a standstill

[Alan Meyer]

> From: David Shochat <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 4:25:39 PM
> Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Pan brings PC to a standstill
> 
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:27:24 -0700, walt wrote:
> > Well, two points.
> > 
> [snip]
> > Second, at-spi-registryd. Unless you know you need it (and if you do
> > need it you already know it) use the Assistive Technologies Preferences
> > applet to disable it. 
> 
> BINGO!!!
> 
> I believe you (and Keith who got me thinking about daemons) have finally 
> solved this longstanding problem. Actually, I had not found the 
> preference so I removed the at-spi package altogether. Now that I have 
> found the preference, I may try reinstalling the package but disabling 
> the feature, which is what you were suggesting. I wanted to make sure 
> there was no way that daemon would run. So now we have a new question: 
> What exactly does the "assistive technologies" daemon do, and why does is 
> it so poisonous to pan? I guess that was 2 questions. I know that the 
> reason I had this was so that I could run GOK (GNOME On-screen Keyboard) 
> which I was only using so I could see foreign keyboard layouts, which can 
> now be done in other ways. When I removed at-spi, it forced removal of 
> GOK. Maybe when this is on, the event loop has to check constantly to see 
> whether one of the virtual keys has been pressed and if so, generate a 
> keypress event. Anyway, I really think there's hope now that someone will 
> come up with a full explanation.
> -- David

My heartfelt thanks to all who figured this out.

On Ubuntu 8.10, I clicked System / Preferences / Assistive 
Technologies, and unchecked "Enable Assistive Technologies".
Not long after that I rebooted for other reasons.  I don't know
if the reboot was required or not, but the next time after that
that I started Pan, the standstill problem seemed to be cured.

Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you.

    Alan