e.g. downversion

John Covici writes:
> Unrolling what exactly?  If its not window manager what might it be?
> 
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 14:06:56 -0400,
> Janina Sajka wrote:
> > 
> > I understand the attraction of gentoo. Why not get a custom build, with
> > just the apps you want, and no more? Sounds cool--until important things
> > break, at which point you're left with both pieces.
> > 
> > I'm sorry, I have no gentoo specific understanding to offer. I can
> > suggest some of the ordinary approaches available on other distros, such
> > as unrolling to earlier versions until things again work. Yes, that can
> > be very tedious, but isn't that part of the gentoo bargain?
> > 
> > Maybe there are other gentoo users here who can validate your
> > experience, or indicate their current success. But, gentoo users are so
> > few and far between because of the high upfront cost of running gentoo.
> > 
> > I know I'm being a bummer, John. But, I feel I've known you via these
> > lists for long enough, that I'm willing to endure your ire. So, what is
> > gentoo's recommended strategy for such situations? After all, breakage
> > is surely inevitable in any human enterprise, including Linux.
> > 
> > Janina
> > 
> > John Covici writes:
> > > Hi.  I am using the gentoo distribution and its gnome overlay and for
> > > the last period (maybe a month or two) I find that no apps are
> > > accessible using the orca screen reader.  The apps actually run as
> > > verified with eyeballs, but orca does not see them.  I am running the
> > > latest accessibility framework from git as of about 4 days ago.
> > > Apparently, orca is not receiving the window activate event and it was
> > > suggested to me that it might be the window manager.  I am using
> > > mutter 3.20.3, downgraded to 3.20.2, but no joy.
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > > How do
> > > you spend it?
> > > 
> > >          John Covici
> > >          cov...@ccs.covici.com
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org
> > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Janina Sajka,       Phone:  +1.443.300.2200
> >                     sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net
> >             Email:  jan...@rednote.net
> > 
> > Linux Foundation Fellow
> > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:   http://a11y.org
> > 
> > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
> > Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures    http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
> 
>          John Covici
>          cov...@ccs.covici.com

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Janina Sajka,   Phone:  +1.443.300.2200
                        sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net
                Email:  jan...@rednote.net

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:       http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures        http://www.w3.org/wai/apa

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