Re: [orca-list] lost my orca modifier

[Mike Gorse <mgorse alum wpi edu>]

Are you using a laptop? If so, then I wonder if your system thinks that 
num lock is enabled. I've ran into this before; it wasn't obvious that num 
lock was turned on, and Orca will ignore keys meant for it even if it is 
set for a laptop keyboard and the keys that you're using aren't keypad 
keys.

getInputHandler in keybindings.py has these lines:

        if keyboardEvent.modifiers & (1 << pyatspi.MODIFIER_NUMLOCK):
            return None

You could try removing these lines and see if it helps.

-Mike

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Albert Sten-Clanton wrote:

> Hi, Hjoanie.  I'm sorry to say that there are no "reliable steps".  At some
> point as I'm using Orca, pressing the Orca key plus P simply won't work, or
> pressing the Orca key plus space will do nothing.  I'll see if I can narrow
> down the reasons:  for example, is it always the first time after I've
> booted up.  I don't think it's anything that easy to reproduce, however.
>
> I seem to remember that you're using Fedora.  Is it true that you've never
> seen this problem?  If that's true, then maybe Peter and I have quirks on
> our boxes that we need to figure out.  I have a couple of weird problems
> unrelated to Orca, so I can't rule out that there's some quirk on this end:
> I would not have replied to Peter, except that he's the first person I know
> of who has dealt with a problem similar to mine.
>
> Al
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Joanmarie
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> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 11:08 AM
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] lost my orca modifier
>
> Hi Albert.
>
> On 02/16/2013 09:28 AM, Albert Sten-Clanton wrote:
>
> > With both Fedoras 17 and 18, I've lost the Orca modifier from time to
> time.
> > Indeed, with 18 it's pretty sure I'll lose it at least once a day.
> > Or, maybe it won't be the modifier, but the keystroke I use to change
> > punctuation levels, Orca plus p.
>
> If you have reliable steps with which I could reproduce this, it would be
> quite helpful if you file a bug so that I can fix it.
>
> Thanks!
> --joanie
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