Re: [orca-list] feature request: disable orca for application

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I know I'm not answering your question, and I don't know what VM 
software you have, but I'm able to use my screen readers (Orca and NVDA) 
in my virtual machines using VMware Player just fine. I also don't have 
any trouble toggling Orca on and off as needed. If the hot key stop 
working for some reason, I can just hit alt+f2 and run orca --replace to 
get it started again.

I'm not saying this isn't a good feature request. I just offer the above 
in case there's something else going on or any of this could be used as 
a work around in the mean time.

On 25/05/16 06:59, Michał Zegan wrote:
> Hello.
>
> This has been requested before, so I will intentionally repeat the request.
> I would like orca to be able to be suspended for one application (or
> even for all applications until explicitly unsuspended). when suspended,
> orca should behave the same as when you focus an inaccessible window,
> where orca keys usually do not work at all.
> Reasons:
> 1 - self voicing applications, although if they use sdl or another
> inaccessible toolkit they have it for free,
> 2 - remote desktops and virtual machines... I cannot currently use
> virtual machine's screenreader when orca is running, if the virtual
> machine viewer is using a gtk window, disabling orca is possible but I
> actually believe that after few such toggles something breaks and no
> global desktop shortcuts like that work anymore,requiring to kill
> gnome-settings-daemon,  also disabling and enabling orca is supposed to
> be slow on my computer especially when a vm is running.
>
>
>
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