[email protected] wrote:
I highlighted a file in my Documents folder, then used 'f2' (the 'rename' keyboard shortcut, then typed the new name.
This last step -- typing in the new name -- is what I cannot do (sometimes) and where your description of your issue and my issue stop being similar (as far as I can tell).
For me certain keystrokes work fine -- hitting F2 to begin Nautilus renaming as you did and hitting Escape to cancel Nautilus renaming -- but all of the alphanumeric keys don't appear to have any effect. I press the alphanumeric keys to type the new name and I see no change in the name just as if I weren't typing at all.
So it's weird that /some/ keys fail to register and it's weird that Nautilus does not do this consistently. This behavior tells me I'm not facing a focus-stealing program. I've yet to identify a reliable means of making Nautilus exhibit this weird behavior so I can post about it and get feedback to confirm that others experience this too.
My renaming had nothing to do with Orca and it was always clear what has focus -- the renaming operation in Nautilus. I can left-click the mouse on the end of the highlighted name and make the cursor deselect the name and place the cursor at the end of the name. But still no new keystrokes appear to register, and pressing Enter (or Return) fails as well.
Thanks for asking about this but I think you're facing a different issue than I am.
