Bug#1099751: orca: Orca captures all input when focus changes to firefox

[Samuel Thibault]

Sebastian Humenda, le jeu. 22 mai 2025 18:36:34 +0200, a ecrit:
> Samuel Thibault schrieb am 22.05.2025, 18:30 +0200:
> >Sebastian Humenda, le jeu. 22 mai 2025 18:28:20 +0200, a ecrit:
> >> Samuel Thibault schrieb am 16.05.2025,  0:32 +0200:
> >> >Sebastian Humenda, le mer. 14 mai 2025 18:09:23 +0200, a ecrit:
> >> >> I've tried a new user and it is indeed gone. I've purged the configurations
> >> >> of orca (~/.local/share/orca) and firefox (~/.mozilla). For the "old" user,
> >> >> the problem persists.
> >> >> What other components are involved that might have stale state/configuration?
> >> >
> >> >Perhaps some MATE desktop keyboard shortcut management?
> >> 
> >> I went through all my settings and purged whatever I found not necssary.
> >> .local, .config and .mozilla I renamed. I still have issues. When I try to
> >> capture another debug log (attached) I get this traceback on the console that
> >> I started Orca on:
> >> 
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/input_event_manager.py", line 239, in process_keyboard_event
> >>     event = input_event.KeyboardEvent(pressed, keycode, keysym, modifiers, text)
> >>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/input_event.py", line 137, in __init__
> >>     if self.keyval_name.startswith("KP"):
> >>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'
> >
> >Perhaps that could be related to your keyboard layout?
> 
> Plain German layout, no modifications.

Is that the same in your fresh account? Does it get the same
AttributeError?

> It might be due to this that it tries to guess something about the
> keyboard layout from the locale.

No, orca just takes the keyboard layout from the X server, it doesn't
modify the layout by itself, it just tweaks it from what is already
there.

Samuel