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Bug 123462 - Ability to change binding for 'locate pointer'
Ability to change binding for 'locate pointer'
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-settings-daemon
Classification: Core
Component: mouse
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-settings-daemon-maint
gnome-settings-daemon-maint
AP4
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-09-29 12:20 UTC by Patrick Wade
Modified: 2015-11-03 18:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description Patrick Wade 2003-09-29 12:20:19 UTC 
Currently in the 'Mouse Preferences' dialog, there is an
option to locate the mouse pointer on-screen.

The checkbox says "Highlight the pointer when you press Ctrl".
It would be useful to allow the user to set the keybinding
to something other that 'Ctrl'.
Comment 1 Calum Benson 2004-01-23 15:14:46 UTC 
Updating status whiteboard to reflect a11y team's assessment of priority.
Comment 2 Calum Benson 2004-10-21 16:49:55 UTC 
Apologies for spam-- ensuring Sun a11y team are cc'ed on all current a11y bugs.
 Filter on "SUN A11Y SPAM" to ignore.
Comment 3 bill.haneman 2005-07-25 09:05:53 UTC 
"Locate pointer" also breaks the use of Control-Escape to launch the gnome foot
menu (!).  

The 'locate pointer' feature actually seems to be quite toxic to accessibility
:-( because of the way that it is implemented.  The grab on a modifier key may
break screen readers and, potentially, onscreen keyboards as well.
Comment 4 André Klapper 2008-01-22 18:22:00 UTC 
dup of bug 125618?
Comment 5 Jens Granseuer 2008-01-25 18:31:59 UTC 
Not really, no (at least not the original enhancement request, comment 3 is).
Comment 6 Bastien Nocera 2015-11-03 18:08:50 UTC 
Under Wayland, the feature as it is implemented in gnome-settings-daemon will not work at all. To be implemented under Wayland, it will need to be implemented in gnome-shell:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690055

Any bugs or new features for "Locate pointer" should be fixed in a new implementation in gnome-shell.