Re: [orca-list] Caps Lock Issue

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Alastair:

The behavior you describe sounds like something is resetting the
xmodmap.  When you have Orca running and the Caps Lock key is behaving
as expected, try running xmodmap in a terminal and saving the output.
Then, do the things you need to do to reproduce the problem and rerun
xmodmap, comparing the results to the prior run.

The thing I'd be interested in is if the lock modifier gets rebound to
the Caps Lock key.  If so, then we're running into something that I
don't think should be happening and it is also something that we cannot
really control easily from inside Orca (e.g., we could try to reset the
lock modifier each time we get something like a window activated or
focus event, but that would be kind of a silly way to workaround a bug
that lives somewhere else).

Will

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 19:12 +0100, Alastair Irving wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Firstly, many thanks for realising that it was webvissum causing the 
> problem with firefox not saving page position, (I'd never have thought 
> about disabling it).
>
> Secondly, in my email last week I mentioned a problem I was having with 
> caps lock when using laptop layout.  I thought the problem was that it 
> wasn't being announced when toggled, but Will pointed out to me that it 
> shouldn't be being toggled at all.  Thus my description of the problem 
> was wrong, the actual problem is:
>
> 1. When I start orca, the caps lock is purely the orca key, (which is 
> what's supposed to happen).
> 2.  If I switch to a text console and then back to gnome, pressing the 
> caps lock key actually toggles caps lock, even if I'm using it in 
> conjunction with something else as an orca shortcut.  Clearly this 
> shouldn't be happening.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this or is it a peculiarity of my X setup? 
> The only thing I have noticed is that in the console from which I 
> started X, there is a message "dropping master", whenever I switch away 
> from X, and "setting master", when I switch back to it.  I don't know if 
> this is normal, or even what master it is referring to.  I also get the 
> feeling that there is an increased chance of Orca crashing once I've 
> switched to a text console and back, although this may just be coincidental.
>
> I'm running orca 2.26.3 on an arch linux system.
>
>
>
> Best wishes
>
> Alastair Irving
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