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

[Elias Oltmanns <eo nebensachen de>]

Hi Kyle,

stopping and restarting orca via super+alt+s did not help either. With
sighted assistence I have switched the order of the keyboard layouts
listed in the corresponding settings dialogue, though. Orca sticks to
the standard German layout now which, if not optimal, certainly is
an improvement for my use case.

Meanwhile, I have realised that alt+f4 does not close applications like
gedit, for instance, whereas alt+f2 opens the run dialogue, as expected.
This indicates that my setup needs some fixing quite unrelated to orca.

Anyway, thanks for your helpful hints.

Best wishes,

Elias



On 2022-08-11 at 23:51:51 (+0200), Kyle via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:
> Maybe try killing Orca first, then starting it again. I think it has
> to completely die and restart before it changes its internal bindings
> to correspond to the new layout. Toggling your screen reader shortcut,
> usually alt+super+s, should do this. Press once, wait about 1 to 2
> seconds, then press again. If that doesn't work, then this is
> definitely a worse problem than what I have experienced.
>
> ~Kyle
>
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