Installing Linux, was Re: introduction

[Jude DaShiell]

I had to do that with a mate install and it worked.  I also found once a 
system is installed when orca stops talking hitting alt-f2 then typing 
orca --replace <enter> also works.  Lots better than a three-finger 
salute.

On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Glenn / Lenny wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:25:40
> From: Glenn / Lenny <gervin at cableone.net>
> To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Installing Linux, was Re: introduction
> 
> Hi All,
> I have found that when Orca stops talking during an install of Linux, I can make it work by threatening to exit with alt + F4
> Then I press escape to cancel the cancellation of the install, and it is back to talking.
> I hope this helps others.
> Glenn------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:18:58 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
> To: Daniel Crone <quirky.wizard at gmx.com>,
> ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: introduction
> Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.20.1603171007530.29640 at panix1.panix.com>
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> I have vinux5 installed which runs unity and found out thunderbird and
> unity don't like each other very much.  I was able to enter my gmail
> credentials and get to the inbox using I think it was shift-f10 inside
> of thunderbird but haven't got email down for reading yet.  I may have
> to install gnome but with only a gig of ram on my athelon X86_64 gnome
> will probably crash the computer.  Inside mate to get to a terminal you
> want to run mate-terminal since that runs faster than gnome-terminal.
> The mate-terminal also works under unity.  Firefox works pretty well
> from my limited use of it so far.  The chromium app isn't accessible for
> orca at all and isn't worth messing with for now at least.  Emacs is
> available and probably very accessible as a work environment which
> should help cover any of libreoffice's shortcomings.  Thunderbird is
> easily crashed over here, but then again I'm a touch typist and have
> little tollerance for keyboard latency unless I get some kind of audio
> indication that something I've done is being worked.  Some clicks from
> the speaker would help in this respect but I don't know that any form of
> Linux offers this feature that can be enabled yet.
> More than that I don't yet know but will find out as I hack through this
> system.
>
>
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Daniel Crone wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:44:28
>> From: Daniel Crone <quirky.wizard at gmx.com>
>> To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: introduction
>>
>> Hello one and all.
>> My name is Daniel, and I have used different operating systems through the years.
>> I have decided to give ubuntu mate a try.
>> I am very new to linux.
>> Before starting, I welcome anyone?s words of wisdom for a totally blind user, new to linux.
>> I liked the idea of sonar, but I have tried to install several times, and the installer never finished.
>> But that could be due to my machine?s being so old and slow.
>> From the dvd, sonar worked very well.
>> I hope ubuntu will be equally good.
>> So, hats off to all, those on the sonar team, and to all on the ubuntu team.
>> I would really like for all linux accessibility people to benefit each other.
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