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bug#35435: 26.1; Gnome magnifier not following cursor when typing in ema
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#35435: 26.1; Gnome magnifier not following cursor when typing in emacs |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:14:47 +0300 |
> 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.