Re: [orca-list] skype and focus

[Vojtěch Polášek <krecoun gmail com>]

I can confirm this behaviour. Whenever there is notification made by
Skype, Orca loses focus.
I had to disable Skype notifications. But it would be surely nice to
have this fixed.
Vojta

On 5.1.2015 19:21, B. Henry wrote:
> I used skype for the first time in a few months these last few days. Some of this was using a distro that 
> must use orca 3.4, but I also used it with 
> 3.14 on F123 and noticed, for sure when using 3.4, and I think with 3.14 as well that when I make a call 
> focus is not switched to the call window. It 
> stays on the main window, so to hang up, or read call quality data is not as easy as it should be. 
> I'll test some more in the next day or two and if I notice anything different will report back here. 
> I do not remember that this was always the case, but this may be my memory. On the other hand is it the 
> latest skype that does this? I mostly stopped 
> using skype when we were forced to update to 4.3.something because I do not use pulseaudio on my arch 
> installations. Generally I must say however that 
> I'm quite pleased with skype 4.3's accessiblity. For the first time ever I connected my skype account via 
> the main interface. I got sighted help 4+years 
> ago to configure skype on a Vinux 3.0 box, and I've just copied my ~/.skype directory over to new boxes 
> since then till this last skype installation.
> Regards,