acbradio has a main menu program and a large archive of programs from main menu available for download. One of them has a debian install demonstration in it and another one has a slackware demonstration install in it. It will not be easy to find them either but they're some of the earlier programs in the archive. More than that I cannot tell you.
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, James AUSTIN wrote: > Hi everyone > > Happy New Year to you all. > > I am really enjoying this discussion and also found it fascinating. I would > like to use the command line more and while I have some experience with it > much of what is being discussed here goes over my head. > > I am wondering if there are any tutorials available to help someone set a > system such as the one being discussed up from scratch. Well I can access the > command line from a GUI I am reliant upon a graphical user interface being > pre-installed with orca before I can use the command line. > > I appreciate that historically Linux was viewed by many as a programmers > operating system, but in recent years it has become much more user-friendly > and available to every day computer users. > > Any pointers to tutorials to set this up from scratch from a blindness > perspective it would be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you > > Warmest wishes > > James > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 31 Dec 2021, at 05:16, Jordan Livesey <jordanlives...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > That is why when you are just starting out on the console, and you know > > how to set up speak up, the keyboard shortcuts for that only require you > > to hold down the caps lock key by default, when ever I do an install I > > always turn the volume up with caps lock and 2 to turn up the volume, but > > as a rule of thumb, I generally don?t need to use it as the terminal gets > > all the work I need done, a simple sudo aptitude update and sudo aptitude > > upgrade if needed if I check for updates which I do regularly > > > >> On 31 Dec 2021, at 03:14, Jeffery Mewtamer <mewta...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Even with console applications, there are various toolkits that allow > >> for the creation of pseudo-GUIs and many such applications do have a > >> number of keyboard commands, though they don't always adhere to the > >> conventions shared by most GUI applications(e.g. in the Nano text > >> editor, save is ctrl+o, not ctrl+s, cut and paste are ctrl+k and > >> ctrl+u instead of ctrl+x and ctrl+v, and find is ctrl+w instead of > >> ctrl+f) > >> > >> Most such text-only GUIs are built on ncurses, and there are packages > >> like dialog that allow shell scripts to to display dialog boxes and > >> scrollable menus. > >> > >> I also think it worth noting that, on most distros, there isn't just > >> one console, but several and that you can easily switch between them > >> with just a couple of key presses. > >> > >> As a general rule, each console is reference by the abbreviation tty > >> followed by a number and if you're in one console, you switch to a > >> different one by pressing alt+ the function key corresponding to the > >> number of the console you want. The number varies from distro to > >> distro, but 12 is common, one for each function key on a standard > >> keyboard, though I understand setups with 24 and a distinction made > >> between left alt and right alt when switching aren't uncommon. If > >> you're running an Xserver, it takes up one of the consoles, and if > >> you're in the GUI, you typically need to do trl+alt+fn to break out of > >> the GUI and into the text consoles. If you start x manually, the > >> xserver will be on whichever console you were on when you invoked > >> startx, but if your system boots into the desktop automatically, which > >> console is used for the GUI varies from distro to distro, though I > >> believe tty1 and tty6 or tty7 are the most common. > >> > >> I usually have a stripped down Xserver running Firefox+Orca on tty1 > >> and use tty2+ for everything else... at the moment, I have: > >> > >> Firefox+Orca running on tty1 > >> aumix(a audio mixer) opened in tty2 > >> A text file open in nano on tty3 > >> tty4 at the command prompt in the directory where the text file that's > >> open in tty3 is located, for easily running wc to get word count of > >> the file without having to close and reopen my editor or if I need to > >> pull up a different file to reference something. > >> tty5 is open to the directory where Firefox dumps all of my downloads. > >> > >> and from Firefox, I just use ctrl+alt+F2-F5 to jump to aumix, the open > >> text file, the directory where the file is saved, or my downloads > >> directory, and can switch between any of those text consoles with just > >> alt+a function key. > >> > >> And while I haven't use them, there are utilities like screen and some > >> others to facilitate multi-tasking in a single console. > >> > >> And if things are properly configured, switching between the console > >> running X and one of the text consoles should seamlessly switch > >> between Orca and your console screen reader, though this can sometimes > >> be tricky to get working right. > >> > > > >
