Re: [orca-list] caps Lock issue

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi Joanie.
It doesn't work in my machine. I use bypass, press capslockk and orca 
says capslock on. However the state of capslock doesn't change.

May I send a debug file?


Thanks.

On 11/05/2015 06:10 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi Peter.
>
> If the Orca modifier is CapsLock, then Shift+CapsLock should not toggle
> the state. Otherwise, Orca+Shift+SomeKey would not be a possible
> combination.
>
> I could probably add code to wait until keys were released rather than
> pressed (i.e. to confirm that CapsLock and Shift had been released
> without SomeKey having been pressed). But then someone will decide to
> use Orca's Foo command and presses CapsLock+Shift and is about to press
> SomeKey when the phone rings. So they release CapsLock+Shift without
> having pressed SomeKey and Orca turns CapsLock on, which is not what the
> user wanted or expected.
>
> So I personally think that bypass should be used when one wants to
> toggle the state of CapsLock in laptop layout.
>
> --joanie
>
> On 11/05/2015 02:44 PM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I can't reproduce this either, however Zahari has also mentioned that
> > shift+capslock is supposed to toggle capital letters. This is something
> > I don't seem able to get to work here.
> > When orca keyboard layout is set to laptop the only way to toggle
> > capslock state for me is by using pass next key through orca+backspace.
> >
> > Is / should this be also working?
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > On 05.11.2015 at 20:15 Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > > Hi Zahari.
> > >
> > > What version of Orca and gnome-shell are you using?
> > >
> > > I am using Orca master and gnome-shell version 3.18.1. Having set my
> > > keyboard layout to laptop and Orca to launch automatically, CapsLock is
> > > always my Orca modifier upon login. If I switch layouts between English
> > > and Spanish (via Super+Space), the keyboard layout changes for input but
> > > CapsLock continues to work as my Orca modifier. I don't have to restart
> > > Orca at all for this to be the case.
> > >
> > > Thus I'm afraid I need more information from you. Sorry!
> > > --joanie
> > >
> > > On 11/05/2015 07:22 AM, Zahari Yurukov wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I have this problem, too.
> > > > I'm using the laptop keyboard layout and CapsLock as Orca modifier.
> > > > After switching the keyboard input layout (i.e. from English to
> > > > Bulgarian and vise versa),, Orca stops intercepting the CapsLock key and
> > > > every press of the CapsLock key results in changing state of the
> > > > CapsLock mode.
> > > > Restart of Orca indeed fixes the problem temporary (this wasn't the case
> > > > the previous time I've reported this).
> > > >
> > > > Best wishes,
> > > > Zahari
> > > >
> > > > On  5.11.2015 13:54, Pavel Vl�ek wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > in the latest versions of Gnome and Orca, I have this issue.
> > > > > When Orca is autostarted and I press Caps Lock or Caps Lock with some
> > > > > other key, it activates capital letters. When I press Caps Lock again,
> > > > > capital letters are deactivated. How to fix? When I want to fix this
> > > > > issue, I must press alt super es key twice to turn Orca off and on. I
> > > > > use laptop keyboard. After orca reloads, caps lock nomore activates
> > > > > capital letters. Is this a bug? Why must I reload screen reader to fix
> > > > > this?
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Pavel V
> > > > >
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--
José Vilmar Estácio de Souza