Re: Disable "auto-focus" in screen magnifier

[Magdalen Berns <thismagpie live com>]

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for bringing this up. I am aware of this issue too but have yet
to find a way to approach it so that the focus is not so 'domineering'
when it is on. I think the tracking needs to be adjusted to focus on the
component itself but have been reluctant to change it while there is one
blanket scaling factor applied to each type of tracking. However, the
problem you mention with the focus in the terminal window is actually
down to caret tracking I believe:

In the terminal if you go to 'profile preferences > scrolling. There you
should untick scroll on keystroke. The problem should disappear.

To disable focus (or caret tracking) altogether you need to type the
following into your terminal window

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.magnifier focus-tracking none

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.magnifier caret-tracking none

Please let us know how you get on,

Magdalen

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> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 22:10:31 +0100
> From: Troels M?hl Folke <t r o e l s m f gmail com>
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> Hi everybody
>
> When the screen magnifier is enabled, some events cause the region of
> interest to be moved (jump, actually). For instance, if a gnome-terminal
> window is active, and the user moves the ROI a bit (i.e. if it follows the
> cursor), and then press some keyboard buttons, giving gnome-terminal some
> keyboard input, then the ROI will jump back to the gnome-terminal window.
>
> Sometimes this ROI jumping also happens when clicking on tabs, etc. in
> windows, which is a bit annoying (must be a bug)
>
> So, is there any way to disable this "auto-focus" feature?
>
> Best Regards
> Troels
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> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:35:06 +0100
> From: Pi?eiro <apinheiro igalia com>
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> Subject: Re: Disable "auto-focus" in screen magnifier
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> On 12/15/2013 10:10 PM, Troels M?hl Folke wrote:
> > Hi everybody
> >
> > When the screen magnifier is enabled, some events cause the region of
> > interest to be moved (jump, actually). For instance, if a
> > gnome-terminal window is active, and the user moves the ROI a bit
> > (i.e. if it follows the cursor), and then press some keyboard buttons,
> > giving gnome-terminal some keyboard input, then the ROI will jump back
> > to the gnome-terminal window.
> Yes this is called focus/caret tracking. It is a feature added on last
> release.
>
> > Sometimes this ROI jumping also happens when clicking on tabs, etc. in
> > windows, which is a bit annoying (must be a bug)
> Not sure why that's a bug. Anyway, if you think that it is a bug, and
> want to elaborate, you can create a new bug following this link:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-shell
> (component magnifier)
>
> > So, is there any way to disable this "auto-focus" feature?
> We are still working on a UI to configure it (this is a know bug, and
> hopefully will be solved on next stable release). But you can disable
> tracking writing the following command on a terminal:
>
> gsettings set 'org.gnome.desktop.a11y.magnifier' 'focus-tracking' none
> gsettings set 'org.gnome.desktop.a11y.magnifier' 'caret-tracking' none
>
>
> BR