Re: selecting desktop in vinux

2016-06-03 Thread Christopher Chaltain
Here are some instructions I got from another list on setting up wifi in either Mate or Gnome: MATE: Sonar Mate is Wi-Fi ready, but it cannot automatically connect to your local network because it has to be set up. To do this 1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Tab to navigate to the bottom panel 2. Press Shift

Re: console speech

2016-06-03 Thread Mark Peveto
So, if i read this right, you can't run the graphical interface, and the console at the same time, though, right? Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Sent from vinux using alpine 2.20.13 On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Doug Smith wrote: > > > > I have had no problems on the arch-based distros

Re: console speech

2016-06-03 Thread Doug Smith
I have had no problems on the arch-based distros getting it to work. The process is different in that all I had to do is take out the graphical display manager such as gdm or lightdm and start the system up with console speech, use startx to start my graphical environment after turning off

Re: console speech

2016-06-03 Thread Mark Peveto
Doug, First, hello from another believer. Second, debian, I believe, is fairly close to ubuntu, isn't it? Many of the issues we're talking about, at least a few of us are anyway, have to do with arch based distros, such as sonar, or F123. I have great console speech in Vinux, which is a ubuntu ba

Re: console speech

2016-06-03 Thread Mark Peveto
There is. The missing link, at least in the cases I'm dealing with, Christopher, is the inability to install speechd-up. Many seem to think there isn't a version that'll work with arch based distros. So far, they seem to be correct, because I haven't seen an install for it. Mark Peveto Regist

Re: selecting desktop in vinux

2016-06-03 Thread Kristoffer Gustafsson
2016-06-03 15:08 GMT+02:00, Christopher Chaltain : > At the log on screen, just tab over to session options, press enter and > then select the desktop you want. > > On 03/06/16 08:04, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: >> Hi. >> I found this out some time ago, but have forgotten. >> vinux comes with mate

Re: console speech

2016-06-03 Thread Doug Smith
Ok, folks, I don't understand what the problem is getting this to work. I have watched this thread and seen all the difficulty all of you are having getting speakup to work with pulseaudio. There is no problem at all in doing this and it is working perfectly well over here with a stock syste

Re: console speech

2016-06-03 Thread Janina Sajka
Sure, the difference for you is all the hard work someone put in to create a working speechd_up for Vinux. Please note that speechd_up isn't maintained, and is not trivial to build. The point is that it's not available on most Linux distros, and the default pulse environment which most distros do

Re: console speech

2016-06-03 Thread Janina Sajka
Yes, you can certainly run Orca with Speech-Dispatcher and alsa. There's configuration for that in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf Or, you can put together a mixed environment along the lines described at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#ALSA.2Fdmix_without_grabbing_hardware_de

Re: selecting desktop in vinux

2016-06-03 Thread Christopher Chaltain
At the log on screen, just tab over to session options, press enter and then select the desktop you want. On 03/06/16 08:04, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: Hi. I found this out some time ago, but have forgotten. vinux comes with mate integrated in the latest release. how do I switch desktops? Als

selecting desktop in vinux

2016-06-03 Thread Kristoffer Gustafsson
Hi. I found this out some time ago, but have forgotten. vinux comes with mate integrated in the latest release. how do I switch desktops? Also, can you tell me step by step how I can connect to my wireless network? Is it easy to install a normal ubuntu if I want the real ubuntu, and not vinux? /Kr

Re: What is the tool for this?

2016-06-03 Thread Tim Chase
On June 2, 2016, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Oh my goodness! Sorry, though I'm sure you've come to expect that my replies tend to border on novel-length, or at least doctoral dissertation length. (grins) > Well fortunately for me it was a simple matter of Ken the > administrator at shellworld to in

Re: What is the tool for this?

2016-06-03 Thread Rob Harris
Sorry, I should have read the whole thread first,... in order. - Original Message - From: "Karen Lewellen" To: "Linux for blind general discussion" Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 4:03 AM Subject: Re: What is the tool for this? Oh my goodness! Well fortunately for me it was a simple matt

Re: What is the tool for this?

2016-06-03 Thread Rob Harris
.ppt and .pptx are almost certainly MS Office's Power-Point presentation package. - Original Message - From: "Christopher Chaltain" To: "Linux for blind general discussion" Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 7:48 AM Subject: Re: What is the tool for this? Tim was just asking if you were tal