Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
d    I think Bookworm uses Pipewire, so on my system there is a process called pipewire-pulse.  I don't think you have to have pulse audio running at all.  I may have disabled it using 'systemctl' or uninstalled it, but I can't remember at the moment. On 10/8/23 10:52, Linux for blind

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Storm_Dragon ought to be the one to fix that deficiency since he wrote fenrir. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Sun, 8 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: >

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Certainly those Debian instructions are interesting reading-and-guidance, but while there is 1 mention of Fenrir as a link to where Debian packages are, there seems no adequate description as there is for Speakup. Chime ___ Blinux-list mailing list

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, I happen to have Debian 12 Bookworm installed in a Qemu virtual machine, so tried, using lightdm as login manager and mate as desktop. Orca was already installed, but not started in mate From mate-terminal I could install espeakup typing as root: apt-get install espeakup. Then as advised

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
    In order to have speech in the text consoles, you need to make sure Speakup or BRLTTY or another screenreader is active.  It works just fine with Speakup.  You may want to read the Debian accessibility FAQ. This is the section on Speech support.

Re: opensuse tumbleweed

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Aptitude includes fields for compressed(persumably the size of the .deb) and uncompressed(presumably how much space the installed package will take up) sizes for each package, but that's just for that package I can see the total installed size of a package on my rpm-based Fedora system, but I

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
On 10/7/23 19:54, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: So, my primary question is am I missing something about the command consoles? The mate terminal seems to be working but it's not quite the same as a command-line console. If you are on a laptop, the FN key might be playing a