Re: [orca-list] Flat review stops working when chromium is opened

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Vsevolod.

When NumLock is on, it is expected for the numpad keys to work like a
numpad. To have them work for Orca commands, NumLock should be off.

--joanie

On Wed, 2022-01-19 at 17:32 +0300, Vsevolod Popov wrote:
> 19.01.2022 12:45, Joanmarie Diggs пишет:
> > Thanks! What I see in your debug.out is the following:
> > * A bunch of pressing NumLock
> Yes, I did that to check and show when it works and when it doesn't.
> > * A bunch of pressing Alt (the other keystrokes aren't being told
> > to
> > Orca, but based on the accessibility events that follow, my guess
> > is
> > you're Alt+Tabbing to change windows)
> Yes, that's true. I was alt tabbing and also another keystroke I
> pressed 
> was ctrl+alt+d to go to the desktop where NumLock works.
> > * A few presses of flat review commands which seem to work
> Yes, that was after I went to desktop, then opened a new terminal
> window 
> where flat review worked.
> > Did you actually give a bunch of flat review commands rather than
> > just
> > a few? If that's the case, then my guess is that the problem is the
> > app
> > in question is no longer emitting accessible keyboard events. A way
> > to
> > test that would be to try other Orca commands at the moment flat
> > review
> > is failing. For instance, does Orca+H put you in help mode if you
> > press
> > it immediately after flat review fails?
> If I press insert on a NumPad, (NumPad 0 key) it doesn't work.
> It enters 0 and h.
> If the regular insert key is pressed, the help is opened.
>
> --
> regards,
> Vsevolod
> https://github.com/sevapopov2/