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

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
lol no worries. If it can't be fixed, it can't be fixed. It's not your 
fault vte doesn't allow it. I can open a bug and ask for this to be 
added, but it's really up to them at that point.
Thanks
Kendell Clark

On 08/30/2016 10:09 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> 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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