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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Jason.

I'll take a look later today/tomorrow. However what you describe sounds
like missing window:activate and/or state-changed:active events.

Thanks!
--joanie

On Sun, 2021-08-29 at 09:49 -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?
>
> In terms of priorities, it obviously isn't urgent, as there are
> work-arounds. I've tested with the latest Orca from Git.
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