Comment 3 for bug 798915

Is your response actually in the launchpad forum/thread? Will my response
automatically be there too?

The two cursors may not be a bug, but I do think that what I reported is a
bug, because I cannot use either cursor to do any selections. I need a way
to set the settings of orca without orca being turned on.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Alan Jenkins <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> The "two cursors" thing is completely intentional. It's difficult to
> guess whether you're being affected by a bug, or if you're just
> struggling with the controls...
>
> The smaller, normal-looking cursor is the "system pointer". It works
> just as if there was no magnifier, and you were using the screen
> normally. This can be confusing, because there _is_ a magnifier :-).
> But it is also useful. It means you can see when the cursor is at the
> top of the screen / the bottom of the screen / the exact middle, etc.
>
> The larger cursor is the one that actually works. When you move it over
> a control (e.g. in the settings dialog), you should see the control
> highlight in the normal way, and it should respond to mouse clicks as
> normal.
>
> If you can get it working, but the "system pointer" is more confusing
> than helpful for you, you can disable the system pointer by clicking
> "hide system pointer" in the preferences dialog.
>
> One bug I noticed on my system is that the window titles don't seem to
> be drawn at all; I just see blackness. And the cursor that actually
> works looks horrible; it's very hard to see because it's all dots. It's
> as if pixels in the original cursor have been kept the same size and
> just spread out a bit.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798915
>
> Title:
> orca magnifier unusable
>
> Status in “gnome-orca” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-orca
>
> When I start orca magnifier, it comes up full screen, there are two
> cursors, and it is impossible to determine how to set the settings.
> The settings cannot be set without the magnifier running. That is,
> all of the settings for the magnifier are disabled until the "enable
> magnifier" settings is clicked, at which point the magnifier comes up
> full screen, and it is impossible to figure out how to get to the
> settings. Contact me if you want me to record a session showing the
> difficulty.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: gnome-orca 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Jun 17 14:32:18 2011
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: gnome-orca
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