Re: [orca-list] Orca confused / confusing when switching keyboard layouts

[Elias Oltmanns <eo nebensachen de>]

Hi Kyle,

thanks for your response. Restarting orca with the command:
orca --replace
does not appear to make any difference, unfortunately. I do wonder,
though, if the order in which keyboard layouts are listed in the control
center keyboard pane might have an influence. This dialogue is
apparently not fully accessible right now so I have to wait until
sighted assistence can reverse the order for me. I will report once I
had a chance to test.

Regards to all birds and stones out there,

Elias


On 2022-08-11 at 16:00:18 (+0200), Kyle via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:
> I had the same problem when I played with alternative English layouts
> such as dvorak and colemak layouts. Orca retains the previous layout
> both for structural navigation and for its other internal keybindings
> until it is restarted, or at least that seems to be my experience.
> Restarting Orca does seem to fix this until I switch layouts again, at
> which time I must restart Orca once again to get back the correct
> keys. The best fixes other than restarting Orca would include sending
> a signal to Orca that the keyboard layout changed, or hacking Orca to
> poll for layout changes, which could be done slowly so as not to bog
> down the system, maybe once every second or similar if no signal is in
> fact being sent over dbus or similar when the layout is changed. Now
> that I think about it, such a work-around in Orca could possibly solve
> a long-standing problem I have had where modifiers no longer work
> correctly if a keyboard is unplugged or disconnected and subsequently
> plugged back in or reconnected. Restarting Orca also appears to solve
> this problem for me. So perhaps simply looping slowly over any
> keyboard detection code could kill two birds with one stone as the
> saying goes.
>
> ~Kyle
>
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