Re: [orca-list] Prevent Orca from eating keys while in a kvm guest

[Vojtěch Polášek <krecoun gmail com>]

Hi all,

these things have relatively easy solutions. I don't think you can 
prevent Orca from blocking keyboard shortcuts while in Virtmanager, asi 
I believe keypresses are firslty captured by Orca and then (if not 
captured) passed to Virtmanager. My solution is to define an application 
specific setting that while in Virtmanager, Orca uses laptop mode.

Getting out of fullscreen area is easy, but setting of the shortcut is 
tricky.

Open virt manager,, menu edit -> preferences, tab called console.

There is a button for setting up the keyboard shortcut to grab and 
ungrab the keyboard by the virtual machine.

Through flat review, you can find out current keyboard shortcut. There 
is a "change..." button. The dialog says it clearly - press OK button 
while holding desired keyboard shortcut. The problem is they expect us 
to use the mouse. So find the OK button with the flat review and use the 
orca+/ I think to move mouse to that button. Then hold the desired 
keyboard shortcut and click the real mouse or touchpad button.

HTH,

Vojta


Dne 26. 01. 20 v 19:46 Christopher Chaltain via orca-list napsal(a):
> I've been meaning to ask this question as well. Also, similarly, if I 
> switch to full screen mode, I don't know how to get out of full screen 
> mode. All of the instructions I read have you placing the mouse at a 
> certain place on the screen and then accessing a pop up menu. I 
> couldn't figure out how to do any of this with Orca, and sighted 
> people seem to have trouble with this as well. I'm hoping there is or 
> will be some keyboard shortcut or something that will let screen 
> reader users get out of full screen mode.
>
>
> On 1/25/20 11:23 PM, Jeremy Lincicome via orca-list wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I have an odd issue that I hope someone can help with.
> >
> > I'm running a Windows 10 guest inside kvm, managed with Virt-Manager. 
> > This is on an Ubuntu 19.10 system.
> >
> > In the guest, I'm using NVDA as my screen reader. Whenever I try to 
> > use the numpad keys to review the screen in the guest, Orca 
> > intercepts them. Orca also intercepts the caps lock key. Is there a 
> > way to keep Orca from intercepting keys, aside from quitting it?
> >
> > If possible, I'd like to be able to keep Orca running, so that I can 
> > get notifications from the host. while working in the guest.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
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