Re: [orca-list] If you are using Mate with Braille please contact me.

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Tom.

When Orca is first started, it tries to find the active application 
window. If it finds it, it should present it. Also if it finds it, it 
then searches for the focused object in that window. So my guess is that 
Orca is not finding an active window. If you care as to why, capturing a 
full debug.out would be helpful. I'm happy to take a look.

If the scenario is that Orca is being started automatically along with 
the desktop, the approach of relaunching Orca and cycling through levels 
presumably won't work. But on 
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca/Debugging, under item 2, you'll 
find something which should work, namely using orca-customizations.py to 
set up the file and debug level
ahead of time.

HTH.
--joanie

On 4/30/20 12:34, Tom Masterson via orca-list wrote:
> Hi John
>
> I find that when I first start the desktop (I tend not to leave one 
> running) orca comes up and does nothing.  My workaround has been to use 
> alt-f1 to get to the menu and then pick an application such as firefox.  
> I believe alt-f2 will also work and let you type the name of the app you 
> want.  I have not tried going to the terminal which is ctrl-alt-t but 
> that should work as well.  I haven't worked hard to find what is 
> happening when ora comes up as I have a workaround that more or less works.
>
> Tom
>
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, John J. Boyer wrote:
>
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > It is working partway. I'm still trying to figure out what is  going 
> > on. It may be a Mate problem, not an Orca problem. My sighted 
> > companions are present only
> > occasionally, so they can't give much help.
> >
> > I press t+F7 to get to the deesktop. How would I start an application 
> > such as mate-terminal or evolution?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 08:41:51AM -0700, Tom Masterson wrote:
> > > Can you give us more specific information?  What are you running when it
> > > happens?  What are the steps to reproduce it?  Can your companions 
> > > tell if
> > > speech is working to follow it i.e is this a braille problem or an 
> > > overall
> > > orca problem?
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello Everyone,
> > > >
> > > > I have just installed the latest version of Orca and Mate. I use 
> > > > Braille only, because I am deaf-blind. An old problem has 
> > > > resurfaceed. The display jams and
> > > > constantly shows the same thing. Nothing I do on the keyboard 
> > > > changes it. I think the screen is following the keyboard, however, 
> > > > because my sighted companions
> > > > have told me that it is.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > John
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > John J. Boyer
> > > > Email: john boyer abilitiessoft org
> > > > website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org
> > > > Status: Company dissolved but website and email addresses  live.
> > > > Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
> > > > Mission: developing assistive technology software and providing STEM 
> > > > services
> > > >        that are available at no cost
> > > >
> > > >
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> > --
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> > Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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> > services
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