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

[PsiStormYamato]

walt wrote:
> David Shochat wrote:
>
> > What exactly does the "assistive technologies" daemon do,
>
> The 'at' series of packages is intended to help users like, e.g.
> Stephen Hawking who can't use a keyboard or perhaps can't see
> a computer screen.  I'm reasonably sure that the gnome onscreen
> keyboard is useful to those who can't use a real keyboard with
> their hands but perhaps can use a joystick or some equivalent to
> move the mouse pointer over the GOK.
>
> > and why does is it so poisonous to pan?...
>
> I can't answer that one.  Maybe someone else here can?
I played around with assistive technologies and Orca in Ubuntu, and I 
found that having AT enabled will result in slowdown of many 
applications, not just Pan. I think the screen reader component is 
trying to scan every line of text in every window, which is probably 
contributing to the system lag.