From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Eric Danan <eric.danan@u-cergy.fr>
Cc: 35435@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35435: 26.1; Gnome magnifier not following cursor when typing in emacs
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:14:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zhodvx08.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77a6ac4f-aa3c-74ee-764b-e9df21692d36@u-cergy.fr> (message from Eric Danan on Fri, 26 Apr 2019 13:05:41 +0200)
> 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:[~2019-04-26 11:14 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 [this message]
2019-05-02 8:17 ` Eric Danan
2020-02-03 10:49 ` Eric Danan
2020-02-04 0:51 ` Stefan Kangas
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