Re: [orca-list] Caps lock and announcing status?

[Jace Kattalakis <khalfang1366 gmail com>]

Running the latest (41.0) in Solus here on my laptop with the Mate 
desktop. I'm having a hard time installing the required packages for 
building Orca master in Solus else I'd try that
Jeffery Mewtamer via orca-list wrote:
> What version of Orca are you using?
>
> Because I'm on Orca 41.2.1 and it's properly announcing the caps lock toggle.
>
> Admittedly, I'm running a stripped down Kiosk-like setup using flwm
> for just Firefox instead of a full desktop, and I'm on a desktop while
> using a laptop style keyboard, but caps lock is my orca key, I have to
> double tap to toggle caps lock, but I still get the caps lock on/off
> message.
>
> Admittedly, I wish I could disable caps lock altogether. Typing in all
> caps is something I don't do often enough for the feature to actually
> be useful, it's too easy to turn on by mistake, and I hate pitch
> shifting and Orca only identifies letters as capital when reading
> character-by-character, not with key echo, making it hard to tell when
> it's on when I think its off.
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