Re: [orca-list] emulating mouse stopped working probably after Gnome upgrade

[Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud hypra fr>]

Le 19/10/2017 à 00:45, chrys a écrit :
> Howdy,

Howdy Chris, I've added Mike Gorse in CC.

> i did some investigation. downgrading at-spi to an 3.24.x version fixes 
> the problem for me. so i assume it breaks while 3.26 development.
>
> i see two strange things:
> 1. if i take look in folder "/run/user/1000/" i see a lot of 
> "at-spi2-RandomString" folders ( this is confirmed by other users in 
> Arch systems)
> 2. i found a (for me) strange commit in at-spi2-core
> GIT hash id:
> 0cce560e437e39daf04e0dd60b38f6c313c7112a
> gitweb link:
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/at-spi2-core/commit/?id=0cce560e437e39daf04e0dd60b38f6c313c7112a 
>
> it replaces the way how an bus is gotten.  A function call to
> get_accessibility_bus_address_x11 ()
> was replaced by
> g_getenv ("AT_SPI_BUS_ADDRESS")
> for me the environ variable "AT_SPI_BUS_ADDRESS" is not defined on my 
> system (This is also confirmed by other Archlinux users). Not sure if 
> that is related to but it looks like to me. I m not that deep in at-spi 
> source code to understand what it exactly does.
> sorry its a bit technical and maybe the wrong list (sorry), but i m not 
> a subscriber in atk list. maybe someone would forward it?

A way to check that should be to revert the commit on version 3.26, 
compile and run it to verify if this is that commit that produces the 
regression mentioned here.

Best regards.
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Alex ARNAUD
Visual-Impairment Project Manager
Hypra - "Humanizing technology"