Re: [orca-list] Mate Session in Arch Linux and Orca

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

I've not had these problems, but will retest later/having hardware issues, hopefully it's just a drop of 
condensation that will dry out later today/having tropical storm fallout here/hasn't stopped raining 
completely for close to two days/very high humidity. 
As for the panel, you can get more information with control f1 when an applet is in focus on your bottom 
panel, or where ever you said you had your panel.
There usually is nothing in the notifications area though, at least for me this is the case. Remember that 
orca has key-bindings to show current and last message, as well as one to show a list of notifications.
I have to use tab on a couple applets because I interact with the applet instead of navigating around the 
panel as usual if I use arrows. These are the volume control, volume is changed if I use arrows when it's 
focused, and the other's the alternative menu applet, think it has gnome in it's name, says it adds some 
extra functionality to the default main menus or similar in its description. 
The skype applet, and I am pretty sure at least one more do not release focus once you navigate to them, i.e. 
your panel becomes unreadable with orca when these applets are focused until the application is closed and 
the item leaves the panel. 
I have about a dozen applets altogether on my bottom panel, which is the only panel I have for obvious 
reasons. All work pretty well with orca, and this is a 64bit arch installation. 
The weather applets require the control f1 keystroke to get them to say anything useful, and you have to 
click on details to get more than a short phrase like "light rain". The timer says nothing, even after 
pressing control f1, but opened it is accessible. 
HTH
--
B.H.\

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:48:31AM +0200, Hrvoje Katić wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I started using Mate GUI with Arch Linux, but I got some issues.
> First of all, alt+shift combinations don't work in Firefox while
> running in Mate, so I can't use e.g. Alt+Shift+K to get list of
> links. In Gnome session, it works as it should. I tried to rebind
> keystrokes, but system always captures my input incorrectly. Let's
> say if I rebind it to ctrl+shift+alt+k, it will recognize it as
> ctrl+alt+k. Or if I try to rebind to ctrl+super+k, it will be
> recognized as super+l. So it's totally confusing.
> Next, I can't access notifications tray, and I removed top panel and
> left only bottom panel where I've put everything that I need. When I
> get to my bottom panel, Orca in most places speaks just Panel. BTW,
> I made export of all required accessibility bridges inside my
> .xinitrc file, because if I don't do this, Orca will not speak
> anywhere.
> Additionally, this morning I updated qt-at-spi from AUR, and since
> then my QT apps don't speak anymore, although I also put export
> QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 environment variable, even inside my .xinitrc
> file.
> My Arch linux is 64-bit, and I'm not sure if bugs with 64-bit
> environment and QT-At-Spi were fixed or not.
> Thanks,
> Hrvoje
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