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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

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