A few hints requested?

[Dave Hunt]

Hi,

I'm running an out-of-the-box installation of 11.10 on my Asus 1015PE 
netbook.  I'm trying to use the Software Center tool with Orca.  When I 
search for applications in a category, how can I get Orca to read the 
names of the apps resulting from my search?  I'd use Synaptic, but it 
throws a bunch of errors about missing themes in pixmaps.

Also, I notice that the Skype gui is somewhat accessible, but cannot 
seem to set options or enter login credentials.  Any ideas?  If I run 
Skype from a terminal and use the 'pipelogin' option to pass my 
credentials, Skype throws errors about pixmaps stuff missing.  When I 
used apt-get to install Skype and Synaptic, there were no errors 
regarding missing or broken dependencies.



Thanks for any help,



Dave  Hunt


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