Caret tracking with gnome shell magnifier

Caret tracking with gnome shell magnifier

[Eric Danan]

Hello,

This is my first message and I hope it is appropriate to send it to this
list.

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 caret to follow what I
am typing.

So far I have been using emacs 24.5 on cygwin on windows 7, and the windows
7 magnifier does the job of tracking the caret.

I am considering switching to gnome on linux and therefore installed the
manjaro-gnome distribution to try it out. The gnome (3.18) shell magnifier
supports caret tracking and it works in all applications I have tried
except emacs (24.5).

Hence I am wondering whether there is something I did not set up properly
in emacs, or whether I did not install it correctly (I used the built-in
package manager though). Would somebody know how to proceed or have a
suggestion?

If there is no way to get it to work in emacs, should I rather send this
message to a bug or feature-request list? Or perhaps the problem is not in
emacs but rather in gnome, or some other package? If somebody could point
me to some explanation of how this works, I would be very grateful. I am
new to linux and searched the web for answers with no success.

Best regards,

Eric

Re: Caret tracking with gnome shell magnifier

[Alex ARNAUD]

On 20/11/2015 23:48, Eric Danan wrote:
> Hello,
Hello
> This is my first message and I hope it is appropriate to send it to this
> list.
It's not the right place but I'm visual impaired too. The right place is 
may be gnome accessibility list.
> I am considering switching to gnome on linux and therefore installed the
> manjaro-gnome distribution to try it out.
Where do you download manjaro gnome, I don't find it. Do you talk about 
Sonar GNU/LInux ?
> The gnome (3.18) shell magnifier
> supports caret tracking and it works in all applications I have tried
> except emacs (24.5).
The only way to have emacs working with gnome magnifier is to launch it 
in the gnome-terminal with option "-nw". It works great for me.
> Hence I am wondering whether there is something I did not set up properly
> in emacs, or whether I did not install it correctly (I used the built-in
> package manager though). Would somebody know how to proceed or have a
> suggestion?
We should report this bug to emacs development team but for me it's not 
useful because emacs works perfectly in the terminal.

Best regards.

-- 
Alex

Re: Caret tracking with gnome shell magnifier

[Eric Danan]

Dear Alex,

Thank you for your answer.

I tried emacs in the gnome terminal and indeed caret tracking works. But
after trying and searching google I understand that in the terminal I
cannnot display images (eg view pdf files or preview latex equations),
which would be a drawback for me (also I read that I cannot use the mouse
and some keyboard shortcuts).

So I would be happy to report the bug. Should I report it to emacs
development team and/or gnome accessibility list?

Regarding manjaro-gnome, I downloaded it here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/manjarolinux/files/community/Gnome/2015.11/manjaro-gnome-15.09-r3-x86_64.iso/download

If I understand correctly, Sonar GNU Linux is manjaro with gnome and
additional accessibility packages preinstalled and set up (screen reader,
on-screen keyboard...) I do not need these additional packages, but do you
think caret tracking could work with emacs (not in terminal) in sonar even
though it does not work in manjaro?

Best regards,

Eric

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Alex ARNAUD <alex@arnaud.link> wrote:

> On 20/11/2015 23:48, Eric Danan wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
> Hello
>
>> This is my first message and I hope it is appropriate to send it to this
>> list.
>>
> It's not the right place but I'm visual impaired too. The right place is
> may be gnome accessibility list.
>
>> I am considering switching to gnome on linux and therefore installed the
>> manjaro-gnome distribution to try it out.
>>
> Where do you download manjaro gnome, I don't find it. Do you talk about
> Sonar GNU/LInux ?
>
>> The gnome (3.18) shell magnifier
>> supports caret tracking and it works in all applications I have tried
>> except emacs (24.5).
>>
> The only way to have emacs working with gnome magnifier is to launch it in
> the gnome-terminal with option "-nw". It works great for me.
>
>> Hence I am wondering whether there is something I did not set up properly
>> in emacs, or whether I did not install it correctly (I used the built-in
>> package manager though). Would somebody know how to proceed or have a
>> suggestion?
>>
> We should report this bug to emacs development team but for me it's not
> useful because emacs works perfectly in the terminal.
>
> Best regards.
>
> --
> Alex
>
>