[BRLTTY] Xbrlapi
Samuel Thibault
samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Mon Dec 11 13:20:36 EST 2006
Yannick PLASSIARD, le Mon 11 Dec 2006 16:10:45 +0100, a écrit :
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:56:27PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Yes, xbrlapi should be run before orca so that orca takes precedence.
> > This, again, should be solved with the generic preference mecanism we
> > expect to add soon.
> That's a problem: it seems that Orca take too much precedence: if I run
> Orca after xbrlapi, all Braille keys are ignored
You mean the keys that produce letters?
> maybe Orca just unignore these keys and do nothing with them ?
It looks like this is what happens. Orca should ignore the key events
that it doesn't handle.
> > > I found one other bug: don't know why but when I tzpe a "@" it inserts a
> > > "à" in the current window... As if the "Alt-grad" key was not pressed;
> > > It may be for all modifiers, I have to test it...
> >
> > Control and alt, since they are directly provided by brltty as
> > modifiers, should work fine. Here the problem is that brltty doesn't
> > provide the modifier itself (it actually can't know which one should be
> > set), hence shifted and altgr-ed keys pose problem indeed: the
> > XKeysymToKeycode function is unfortunately not very powerful. I'll dig
> > a bit more about this.
> What should be done to correct this ?
I told it: I'll dig into this problem. The solution is far from trivial
since it involves the keyboard mapping.
Samuel
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