Debian Stretch: how to get spoken login prompt and retrieve tty1

2017-12-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Greetings! I ran into some problems when I upgraded from jessie to stretch this fall. I'd like to fix these two especially without having to reinstall. First, when I used jessie, Orca spoke at login time. Now, it doesn't. I guess when to do it, and then I get a message from Orca like "scree

Re: Debian Stretch: how to get spoken login prompt and retrieve tty1

2017-12-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
2017 12:26:25 From: Linux for blind general discussion To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: Debian Stretch: how to get spoken login prompt and retrieve tty1 Greetings! I ran into some problems when I upgraded from jessie to stretch this fall. I'd like to fix these two espec

Re: Debian Stretch: how to get spoken login prompt and retrieve tty1

2017-12-18 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hello Al, Didier Spaier here. Le 17/12/2017 à 18:26, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > Greetings! > > I ran into some problems when I upgraded from jessie to stretch this fall.  > I'd like to fix these two especially without having to reinstall. > > First, when I used jessie, Orca

Re: Debian Stretch: how to get spoken login prompt and retrieve tty1

2017-12-18 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, Didier. Thanks for writing back. It looks like I do not have lightdm here but gdm3, in case that gives you any other ideas for me. I tried alt plus f1, but it does the same as the "windows" or "super" key, bringing me in or out of where to type part or all of a program name. I do go in

Re: Debian Stretch: how to get spoken login prompt and retrieve tty1

2017-12-18 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
try alt plus control plus f1. On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 18:00:55PM -0500, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > I tried alt plus f1, but it does the same as the "windows" or "super" > key, ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https:

Re: Debian Stretch: how to get spoken login prompt and retrieve tty1

2017-12-18 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hello Al, Le 19/12/2017 à 00:00, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > Hi, Didier.  Thanks for writing back. > > It looks like I do not have lightdm here but gdm3, in case that gives you any > other ideas for me. > > I tried alt plus f1, but it does the same as the "windows" or "super"

Re: Debian Stretch: how to get spoken login prompt and retrieve tty1

2017-12-18 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I use that keystroke, but the gui is no longer available there--at least, not unless I log in again. It has moved to another place, although once today even that didn't work. Al On 12/18/2017 06:43 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: try alt plus control plus f1. On Mon, Dec 18, 2

Re: Debian Stretch: how to get spoken login prompt and retrieve tty1

2017-12-18 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I work in both graphical and console. I just want the gui I originally logged into to still work right. I did use the startx approach when I was running Arch Linux; that might be fine here, but I don't know how to do that in Debian either, yet. Al On 12/18/2017 06:43 PM, Linux for blind gen