GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 677821
orca sometimes doesn't present updated content in gnome terminal
Last modified: 2018-02-08 13:05:01 UTC
Using any orca version in ubuntu 12.04, with gnome-terminal version 3.4.1.1. Orca doesn't present refreshed or changed text. It happens for example during updating of a system with apt-get, but this is sporadic. But this occurs surely when reading man pages - try to open some man page and press N for next page. You won't hear anything and you will have to read it using flat rewiebv. This stands for configuring kernel with make menuconfig as well. This is my first bug, so just tell me what to include and I will gladly help.
When reading man pages, if you use Space instead of N does it work? The problem with presenting the updated text in a terminal is that we often get extra (and sometimes bogus) text changed events. If we didn't filter these out, Orca would say all sorts of text all the time which you wouldn't want. As a result, we are not filtering out new text which results from Space and Return being pressed. As for apt-get, I'm surprised that is not getting presented. But you said it was sporadic. Therefore, if you could capture a full debug.out on an occasion where it was not presented, we might be able to figure out why it was not presented. https://live.gnome.org/Orca/Debugging
When using space, it works. I will try to get some debugging info.
I can confirm this still occurs on both gnome 3.14 and mate. It is not specific to gnome terminal, all terminal emulators that I've ever used shows this behavior. Mate terminal, gnome terminal, lxterminal, xfce4-terminal, etc. I'll get a debug log and post it when it happens. It might be quite large though as it is very sporatic.
Created attachment 291854 [details] debug.out file showing the failure to anounce new content in terminal issue. I have two such instances where orca was not announcing new content when it appeared.
created and attached a debug log describint orca's failure to present new content in terminals when it appears. i have two instances when orca did not announce new content. I stopped at 2 because I didn't want to make the file too large. This is using mate terminal, even though the window says alter aeon, I titled it that way on purpose so I'd know I was connected to that particular mud
This may be due to missing events which I'm now hacking around in Orca. Can you still reproduce this with Orca master or the gnome-3-16 branch?