From: Eric Danan <eric.danan@u-cergy.fr>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Alex ARNAUD <alex@arnaud.link>, 35435@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35435: 26.1; Gnome magnifier not following cursor when typing in emacs
Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 10:17:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <98092a61-4443-8415-17a1-370e270ee060@u-cergy.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zhodvx08.fsf@gnu.org>
Thanks for your reply. I don't have the knowledge (neither on the emacs
code nor on X) to prepare such a patch, and I of course understand if no
one else can do it, but I an otherwise happy to test things if that can
help.
(Also cc'ing Alex Arnaud, which I forgot to do the first time.)
On 2019-04-26 13:14, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Eric Danan <eric.danan@u-cergy.fr>
>> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 13:05:41 +0200
>>
>> Due to a visual impairment I constantly work with a screen magnifier
>> turned on (in full screen mode), and I need it to track the cursor/caret
>> to follow what I am typing.
>>
>> So far I am using emacs 26.1 on cygwin on windows 10, and the windows 10
>> magnifier does the job of tracking the cursor.
>>
>> I am considering switching to gnome on linux and therefore installed the
>> fedora (version 29) distribution to try it out. The gnome (3.30) shell
>> magnifier supports cursor tracking and it works in other applications
>> but not emacs (26.1).
>>
>> I previously sent this message to the gnome accessibility list (that was
>> a long time ago in 2015, so with earlier versions of emacs and gnome)
>> and got a reply from Alex Arnaud stating:
>>
>> > I've tried to test Emacs with Accercicer (a accessibility debug tool)
>> and my conclusion are Emacs doesn't connect it to AT-SPI (accessibility
>> stack).
>
> The Windows port of Emacs has special code to move the system caret in
> sync with the cursor. I guess the X build should have something
> similar, patches are welcome to implement that.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-02 8:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-26 11:05 bug#35435: 26.1; Gnome magnifier not following cursor when typing in emacs Eric Danan
2019-04-26 11:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 8:17 ` Eric Danan [this message]
2020-02-03 10:49 ` Eric Danan
2020-02-04 0:51 ` Stefan Kangas
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