The speakup key is numpad insert or capslock. There is no highlight/cursor tracking defined for machines without a dedicated numpad in the speakup keymap currently. If your contact's machine can emulate the numpad asterisk through the fn key, then use that, or attach a keyboard with a numpad, or just a numpad if your contact can get hold of one or has one. Greg On Sun, Feb 09, 2025 at 12:06:28PM +0000, Didier Spaier wrote: > Hi Jude, > > To use the "toggle cursoring" function, if your contact has (or can attach to > the computer) a keyboard with a numeric keypad, this is asterisk or '*' on the > keypad. Else (laptop without a numeric keypad) that would be press and hold the > "speakup key" usually Ctrl and press 8. > > At least that's what I read in the file speakupmap.map here in > /usr/src/linux-6.12.8/drivers/accessibility/speakup/speakupmap.map > > Cheers, > Didier > > PS quote from spkguide.txt below > > You may select among the various forms of cursor tracking using the keypad > asterisk key. > Each time you press this key, a new mode is selected, and Speakup speaks > the name of the new mode. The names for the four possible states of cursor > tracking are: "cursoring on", "highlight tracking", "read window", > and "cursoring off." The keypad asterisk key moves through the list of > modes in a circular fashion.uide.txt: > > On 09/02/2025 09:45, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > On a Toshiba satellite laptop what key or keys get used to enable highlight > > tracking? A contact is trying to install a linux on one of these and I never > > had one of these computers so don't know what to tell him. > > > -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx
