Re: [orca-list] sticky caps lock with orca

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey José.

Could you please file a bug against Orca in gitlab? Then perhaps either 
Samuel or Mike (both CCed) could work on it.

Thanks!
--joanie

On 10/29/19 1:54 PM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I did a test here by connecting a usb keyboard to my laptop. Every time 
> the keyboard was plugged in or out, the sticky capslock problem would 
> come back.
>
>
> A consistent way to reproduce the problem seems to be as follows:
>
>
> 1. Make sure that orca is configured to use capslock key as the orca 
> modifier.
>
> 2. Launch gedit and type some text inside the editor.
>
> 3.Make sure the text you typed in step 2 is all lowercase.
>
> 4. Press capslock only once and type something else.
>
> 5. Again make sure that what you typed in the previous step is in lower 
> case.
>
> 6. Connect an external keyboard to the computer.
>
> 7. Type something else using the computer keyboard or the external 
> keyboard connected in the previous step.
>
> 8. Again make sure that what you typed in the previous step is in lower 
> case.
>
> 9. Now press the capslock key once and type something else.
>
>
> Note that the text you typed in the previous step is in upper case, 
> indicating that capslock has been turned on.
>
> Since we are using capslock as the orca modifier key, capslock should 
> only be turned on if pressed twice.
>
> If orca is restarted the problem disappears but if the external keyboard 
> is disconnected the problem reappears.
>
>
> I tested several times and the result was always the same.
>
>
> On 10/29/19 12:28 PM, Kyle via orca-list wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I think the problem I have is something entirely 
> > different, as I have no such line in my .bashrc. My problem happens 
> > whenever I disconnect a keyboard and reconnect it, whether that means 
> > unplugging a USB keyboard and plugging it back into the machine or 
> > disconnecting a bluetooth keyboard to use it with another device and 
> > then reconnecting it. In these cases, using the capslock key as the 
> > Orca modifier performs both a capslock toggle and the Orca key combo , 
> > so I end up typing uppercase at times. Only restarting Orca seems to 
> > fix the problem. So it doesn't appear that my problem is caused by the 
> > same thing, but it does seem to be widespread, as any reconnected 
> > keyboard seems to cause this problem. My guess as to why this problem 
> > seems to be hard to track down is because it only seems to effect 
> > laptop mode, as capslock is only used as the Orca modifier in this 
> > layout.
> >
> > Imetumwa kutoka ofisi yangu
> >
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