Re: [orca-list] Question about appearance

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Setting appearance to "Normal" ends up replacing the metacity window 
manager with compiz.  The window manager is the thing that allows you to 
move between windows using Alt+Tab and also to get to the top/bottom 
panels and desktop using Ctrl+Alt+Tab.

To put it frankly - compiz is broken for a11y.  I'd suggest using the 
"None" option to get you back to metacity until the compiz folks fix the 
problems.  Here's the bugs for the Alt+Tab problem.  The first is an 
Orca bug we use to track the compiz bugs -- adding comments to it will 
be preaching to the choir.  Please feel free to add comments and urges 
to the opencompositing bugs, though:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466841
http://bugs.opencompositing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027
http://bugs.opencompositing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1028

The Ctrl+Alt+Tab problem might be fixed -- I couldn't find a bug.  I 
continually hear people complain about compiz and Ctrl+Alt+Tab, however, 
so I suspect there's either a trick one needs to know to enable it or 
it's still broken.

Hope this helps,

Will

James & Nash wrote:
> Hi folks,
>  
> I was snooping around the various menus of ubuntu and found an option 
> within the Visual Effects page called "normal". This option said tha it 
> allowed for greater usability. However, when I enabled this, Orca (Orca 
> 2.24) would not read when I ALT + TAB between applications. Is this 
> something that hsa been noticed or is this not correct?
>  
> Thanks
>  
> james
>
>
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