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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

I want you to. :) Basically just copy and paste the steps you listed in 
your email.

Pretty please and thank you very much in advance.
--joanie

On 10/29/19 3:12 PM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> Hi Mike.
>
> Do you want that I file a bug in git lab?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> On 10/29/19 3:24 PM, Mike Zhukovskiy wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'll work on this.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Mike
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 2:18 PM Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com 
> > <mailto:jdiggs igalia com>> wrote:
> >
> >     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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