Re: [orca-list] orca and remote desktop connection

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

For now I'm disabling orca, but that's bad because if I get any 
notification on the host machine I won't be informed.
It seems to me that the ideal would be to implement the ticket reported 
at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/issues/243.

On 5/20/22 17:27, Kyle wrote:
> I think Orca will always intercept its keybindings, even in a virtual 
> machine or remote desktop, unless you run a virtual machine in 
> full-screen mode. This would apply to any remote desktop or virtual 
> machine software, since it's just another application to Orca. I see 
> two ways around this. One way would be to stop orca while you're using 
> remmina and restart it once you disconnect or close it, and the other 
> would be to open Orca's preferences using capslock+control+space with 
> remmina open and just clear out all the keybindings there. This would 
> keep Orca from intercepting any keys while remmina is open. The only 
> problem I see with that approach is that you can't clear out the orca 
> keybinding itself, so your keys may not work in the remote desktop's 
> screen reader, since it won't see that you pressed the capslock key 
> most likely.
>
> ~Kyle