Re: [orca-list] Orca Locks the Orca key

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

I think I've seen this too. It seems to happen when I accidentally tap 
the mouse pointer embedded in my keyboard, contact the touchpad, or 
simulate left/right clicks. When that happens, the Orca key seems to get 
stuck. This manifests in odd things, like pressing Enter in Terminal 
speaks "Read-only: terminal" as if I've used the where-am-I key. The 
only way I've found to escape this is to trigger another left/right 
mouse click, sometimes in the initial app where this happened.


As an aside, for a long time now I've been agitating for some sort of 
in-memory FIFO log of the last minute of Orca activity. So many times I 
see folks asked to reproduce issues, and as an experienced software 
developer myself, even I'm challenged to reproduce some of the many 
issues I've had with Orca. Yet, if we could keep a debug log of the most 
recent events, then dump that to disk, I think I could provide many more 
useful bug reports. The only current alternative is to enable all debug 
output which, if it takes hours to days to reproduce something, is going 
to produce an unwieldy file very quickly. You then need to open said 
unwieldy file in a text editor, which Gedit at least struggles with in 
the case of large files, then trim it down. You also have to clean up 
old debug logs. In short, the deck is stacked against folks trying to 
provide debug logs for difficult-to-reproduce issues, which 
unfortunately are the bulk of what I encounter with Orca these days.


Thanks.



On 02/26/2018 02:21 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having an interesting issue as of late. For whatever reason, I
> get in to a situation wherein I cannot use Orca properly on account of
> the Orca key getting jammed when I am not actually hitting it. Is
> there a workaround or a fix for this bug?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hunter
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