Re: [orca-list] Questions we need to ask the Fedora and Gnome teams

[Kyle <kyle free2 ml>]

I just downloaded Fedora Workstation 36 here, and aside from a little 
craziness with pitching of the default configuration, e.g. it says 
"screen reader" at a normal pitch and then says "on" at an unusually 
high pitch, it works as expected. It probably could use a startup sound 
to let you know that the desktop is running, but other than this, 
pressing alt+super+s started Orca from the live iso without any issues 
other than that strange pitch problem I mentioned. Are you trying to run 
the iso on bare metal or in a virtual machine? If you are trying to run 
it in a virtual machine, you may still be seeing a problem I had with 35 
where you get no sound. I can't be absolutely sure, but it appears to 
have something to do with Pipewire or either Wireplumber having trouble 
getting the emulated hardware working.


Your other question referred to the alt+control+t shortcut to start a 
terminal. As far as I was aware, this is specific to Ubuntu and 
derivatives. I haven't ever seen this shortcut in any vanilla GNOME 
distribution, although it is present I believe in Cinnamon. But this is 
likely due to the fact that Cinnamon is essentially a fork of Ubuntu's 
GNOME 3.x for Linux Mint, which is an Ubuntu derivative. You can 
configure the GNOME keyboard shortcuts any way you like, but the 
alt+control+t terminal shortcut is not a default in vanilla GNOME, in 
fact I believe there is no shortcut configured for the terminal at all 
by default. I successfully opened a terminal from the run window by 
pressing alt+f2 and entering gnome-terminal. Hope this helps.

~Kyle