Re: [orca-list] workspace switcher is not accissible with Orca

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Hi, Thomas,

Got a how to handy?  I ran across this god awful long string of commands 
to go into the cli which I find impossible to recall and can't seem to 
find on google anymore.  I'd love to be able to use multiple ones and 
assign them hotkeys like alt f3through  f12 or something.  With KDE you 
just go into the system config area and type in how many you want.  In 
gnome, you go into dconf editor and find you can't edit the field to get 
it past 4.  So, I ask again, you got a how-to handy?  I'd love to have 
it if you do.

Thanks.
Alex M
On 5/24/2012 9:06 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> I'm afraid I disagree. You can assign hot keys in Gnome to any 
> workspace you like, and I do it all the time. I only assign keys for 
> the first 9, but I suppose I could just as easily use something like 
> shift+control+f1 through shift+control+f12 for all 12 workspaces. Its 
> not as difficult as you make it sound. Imho I do agree that KDE's 
> implementation is better in some ways.
>
> On 5/24/2012 11:24 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
> > I can see value in it if you have more than 4 workspaces.  On my Lucid
> > Vinux installation, I got myself up to 12 workspaces.  I stopped using
> > more than about five of them because it was too much of a pain to get
> > to, say workspace 11 or something like that.  Gnome and Unity make
> > workspaces a bit hard to mess with.  I haven't bothered doing that
> > ever since.  KDE, on the other hand, is absolutely fantastic for
> > multiple workspaces incorporating the function keys as hotkeys for
> > jumping to particular ones and making it extremely easy to add or
> > remove how many workspaces you use.  I can't wait till all its a11y
> > issues are worked out as I think it more adequately fits my personal
> > pc user style than Gnome does.  If I didn't use a screen reader, I'm
> > sure I'd've used it from the beginning.
> >
> > Alex M
>
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