Re: [orca-list] Orca dialogs not available after logging in

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi,

OK.  Is http://bugzilla .gnome.org the best place to report this bug, or is 
there a more specific bug list that would be more appropriate?

Thanks for your help,

dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
To: "David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>
Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca dialogs not available after logging in


> I agree that this is a bug, but I think it is more of a desktop bug than an 
> Orca bug -- the desktop should come up with *something* with focus. Have 
> you tried pressing Ctrl+Alt+Tab to force the desktop icons to get focus?
>
> To work around this problem on startup, you can add an application (e.g., 
> gnome-terminal, pidgin, any other application you would typically use when 
> you login) to the start up programs of gnome-session-properties.
>
> Will
>
> David E. Price wrote:
> > From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca dialogs not available after logging in
> >
> >
> > > It may be that nothing has focus when you first log in.  As a result of 
> > > this, the AT-SPI infrastructure is unable to capture any keyboard 
> > > events, resulting in Orca not knowing anything is happening.  :-(
> > >
> > > If you press Alt+Tab, do you get any speech?
> > I think you are correct. Alt-Tab gets no speech. If I go to the top panel 
> > (Alt-F1) and then hit escape, I am similarly without speech on Alt-Tab 
> > and I cannot launch the Orca dialogs. However, if I hit Alt-F1 and give 
> > the top panel focus, I can launch the Orca dialogs.
> >
> > To me, this looks like a bug, but I'm not sure for whom. If the Orca main 
> > window is not open, can focus be passed from Orca to the desktop? Or, 
> > would this cause problems for focusing other applications that are 
> > launched on startup?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > dave