GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 697168
keyboard: port switch scanning feature from caribou antler
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:47:21 UTC
To test: 1. run caribou-preferences and check "Enable scanning" 2. Enable screen keyboard on gnome-shell 3. type space key a few times Actually, this patch is far from usable state yet, as the OSK does not recognize space key from the second time on. I guess this is related to focus tracking in gnome-shell and libcaribou. libcaribou grabs space key when OSK is created, but after it sends a key event with XTestFakeKeyEvent, it seems to lose the key focus. I'd appreciate for any help.
Created attachment 240470 [details] [review] keyboard: port switch scanning feature from caribou antler caribou's antler (the OSK UI written in python) has an a11y feature called switch scanning, which allows users to input text only with a single key: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_Access_Scanning This patch tries to port the feature to gnome-shell.
Rui, do you want to look at this ?
What does "Enable scanning" do?
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