Re: Fwd: How to enable focus & caret tracking in magnifier

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

Hi, thanks for all your feedback, comments inline.

On 02/23/2014 09:10 PM, Bas Cancrinus wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Thanks for your help!
> I checked the values of focus-tracking and caret-tracking and they
> were ok.

Right now the only way to configure the focus and caret tracking is with
the terminal:

gsettings set 'org.gnome.desktop.a11y.magnifier' 'focus-tracking' <value>
gsettings set 'org.gnome.desktop.a11y.magnifier' 'caret-tracking' <value>

As Peter Vagner mentioned, <value> can be 'none', 'centered', 'pushed'
or 'proportional'

> So I did some more testing and I found out that focus & caret tracking
> (partially) works with:
> - gedit
> - the file browser
> - the terminal window
> - Rythmbox *
> - Evolution *
>
> * = caret tracking doesn't work, magnifier scrolls to wrong position
> when caret moves

caret and focus tracking are based on accessibility events. Evolution
has right now several accessibility issues, so probably the
accessibility events are wrongly emitted.

> However, it doesn't work at all with:
> - Firefox
> - LibreOffice
>
> Is there any way to enable caret & focus tracking with Firefox and
> LibreOffice?

Don't know about LibreOffice, but there is a bug already opened in
relation with Firefox:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709579

The bug is still not solved, but on the comments of the bug, it includes
a workaround to get it working. I hope this helps.

Best regards

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Alejandro Piñeiro