Re: [orca-list] gnome-terminal focus

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi John.

That sounds like this Gtk+ bug, which I'm working around in Orca:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748311

The workaround is in both Orca 3.16.2 and master. So what version of
Orca are you using?

--joanie

On 08/28/2015 04:10 PM, John Heim wrote:
> Is there a hotkey to make orca refresh it' view of the current window?
> I'm having a problem with orca and gnome-terminal in ubuntu 15.04
> (vivid). It's similar to a problem I brought up a year ago with debian
> squeeze. If you switch between tabs in gnome-terminal, orca does not
> seem to refocus on the new tab. If you press control+tab to switch to
> another window and then go back to gnome-terminal, then orca can read
> the screen.
>
> If I could get orca to do whatever magic it does when you switch to
> another app and then back without having to switch to another app and
> back, I'd be okay.