Re: [orca-list] lost my orca modifier

["Albert Sten-Clanton" <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

Hi, Mike.  No, I'm using a desktop.  Thanks!

Al 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Gorse [mailto:mgorse alum wpi edu] 
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 3:18 PM
To: Albert Sten-Clanton
Cc: 'Joanmarie Diggs'; orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] lost my orca modifier

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 Diggs
> 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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