Re: [orca-list] A couple of questions

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

No, arrowing around doesn't deselect everything. If you reach the end  
in one direction, your selection remains on the item you last selected.
While I've not found a way to deselect everything, I have found a way  
to bring up the folder's context menu rather than the one of the  
selected file. Press ctrl+f10 rather than shift+f10. This will bring  
up the menu you're looking for without having to alter your  
selections. I.e. on the desktop, this menu contains "create folder,"  
"create launcher," etc. In a typical nautilus window, this menu will  
contain "create folder," "create document," "zoom in," etc. In other  
words, it's the same menu you'd get when bringing up a context menu  
with nothing selected.


On Feb 15, 2009, at 11:34, Alonzo wrote:

> Hello Storm,
>
> I would guess you could just arrow left or right nad or up and down  
> and that will deselect things.
> Just a thought.
>
> Alonzo
>
> On 02/15/2009 08:51 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> > Hi
> > Not sure about your first question, but the latest trunk builds of  
> > Seamonkey work pretty well with Orca. It's not perfect, I'm having  
> > some minor issues in Seamonkey composer. If you're trying to use  
> > Seamonkey from your distribution's repository and it's not working,  
> > they're most likely still using the 1.x versions. These haven't yet  
> > upgraded to use the engine in Firefox 3, so they won't work well.  
> > Get the latest builds and you should be fine.
> >
> >
> > On Feb 15, 2009, at 02:13, Storm Dragon wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I was wondering, if you are in a folder or on the desktop and you  
> > > want to deselect everything, is there a keyboard shortcut to do  
> > > so?  Also, Seamonkey is basically the same code used in Firefox  
> > > and Thunderbird.  Is there a way to make it work with Orca?
> > > Thanks
> > > storm
> > > Check out the Storm Dragon blog:
> > > http://www.stormdragon.us/
> > >
> > >
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