Re: [orca-list] orca master cannot rout the cursor in terminals

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Kendell.

I can confirm this. I can also confirm that it's not a regression in
Orca (which was my first suspicion when you specifically mentioned Orca
master). Looking into it further, I discovered that VTE does not allow
re-positioning the caret via the accessible text interface. So to fix
this issue, VTE would need to add that support.

As a related aside, I cannot help but wonder if this behavior is
intentional. Setting the caret via AT-SPI2/ATK's text interface is the
functional equivalent of clicking with the mouse in the text. And
clicking with the mouse in a terminal, even when running an editor like
Emacs or Nano, does not re-position the caret.

As a related aside to the related aside: No, I cannot hack around this
by synthesizing a mouse click because as I stated above, clicking
doesn't move the cursor in the terminal either.

--joanie

On 08/27/2016 11:13 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> hi all
>
> Steps to reproduce
>
> Open a terminal, and type some text. Test works, but anything will do.
> Try to press one of the cursor routing keys to route the cursor to a
> letter. Orca should route the cursor to that letter and if it's a
> different word, expand that word to computer braille, but it doesn't.
> It's possible that since I have the selection indicator set to none this
> doesn't work, but I'm not positive. This requires a braille display to
> test, so if you don't have one you won't be able to test. This is with
> orca master, completely up to date and sonar linux, also completely up
> to date.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kendell Clark
>
>
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