Re: [orca-list] Orca unable to respond appropriately after closing Chromium under MATE desktop

[Alexander Epaneshnikov <aarnaarn2 gmail com>]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 09:49:58AM -0400, Jason White via orca-list wrote:
> To reproduce (noting that I've only encountered this in the MATE desktop
> environment, and cannot as yet reproduce it under GNOME 40):
>
> 1.  Close Chromium with Alt-F4 (with other application windows open).
> 2. Press Alt-Tab to attempt to switch to another application. The
> focused object of the application switched to is presented.
>
> Result: Orca is unable to access the application switched to. Typing
> text into that application (e.g., a terminal) achieves nothing. The only
> two work-arounds that I have found are:
>
> a. Type Insert-Space to open an Orca Preferences dialogue
> b. Alternatively, immediately after closing Chromium, type Ctrl-Alt-D to
> move to the desktop before Alt-Tab to move to another application
> window.
>
> Although this can be reproduced easily with Chromium, I have encountered
> the same issue when closing LibreOffice.
>
> The logs are too large to send to the list. I can supply the file
> separately however. The only immediately suspect issue in the logs is
> that, even when the events are clearly coming from other windows and
> Chromium has been closed, Orca continues to use the Chromium script.
>
> In the scenario in the logs, I had a terminal and an instance of Mozilla
> Thunderbird running in other windows at the moment of exiting Chromium.
>
> Can others reproduce?

yes and for a long time.

> In terms of priorities, it obviously isn't urgent, as there are
> work-arounds. I've tested with the latest Orca from Git.

to be honest I think this is a window manager problem in mate.

-- 
Sincerely, Alexander