Re: Which softwares to install ?

2022-07-18 Thread Didier Spaier
Le 18/07/2022 à 12:48, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > There is no need to unsubscribe, you just need to refrain from > gratuitous advertisement. > > Samuel So informing about external projects, even if free as in free speech (also as in free beer in case of Slint) and open source is considered as a

Re: Which softwares to install ?

2022-07-18 Thread Didier Spaier
> I concur with Samuel, using your e-mail address to promote yourself is > more than enough. No worries, I will just unsubscribe now. Didier

Re: Which softwares to install ?

2022-07-17 Thread Didier Spaier
Le 18/07/2022 à 00:47, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > I guess he means the lightdm login page? Normally if the system was > installed with speech/braille enabled, orca is enabled on the login page > as well. Otherwise IIRC lightdm has a shortcut to start orca. Correct, but probably it depends on

Re: [orca-list] Do you have a solution?? [john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org: Problem with lightdm]

2022-07-04 Thread Didier Spaier
ier, > > Thanks. I use Braille, not speech. This all seems quite complicated. I wonder > why the change was made. It has meant that I can't use a graphical interface > on Linux. I'll have to try the suggestions and see what hapens. > > John > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 07:3

Fwd: [orca-list] Do you have a solution?? [john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org: Problem with lightdm]

2022-07-04 Thread Didier Spaier
pens. > > John > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 07:36:48PM +0200, Didier Spaier wrote: >> Hello John, >> >> I second the suggestion from Jason to start in console mode the type startx >> wheneve needed to start Mate, at least as a workaround. >> >>

Fwd: [orca-list] Do you have a solution?? [john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org: Problem with lightdm]

2022-07-04 Thread Didier Spaier
[message re-sent from my usual email address, sorry for the duplicates] Hello John, I second the suggestion from Jason to start in console mode the type startx wheneve needed to start Mate, at least as a workaround. Now to have lightdm start in tty7 as previously, you could edit the file:

Re: [orca-list] Do you have a solution?? [john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org: Problem with lightdm]

2022-07-04 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello John, I second the suggestion from Jason to start in console mode the type startx wheneve needed to start Mate, at least as a workaround. Now to have lightdm start in tty7 as previously, you could edit the file: /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and remove the leading # in this line: #minimum-vt=7

Re: R: which desktop is more accessible in debian

2022-06-29 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello Roberto Le 29/06/2022 à 15:27, Roberto Burceni a écrit : > Thank you for your response. Which distribution are you using for xlqt? Slint, but running the pre-version 15.0 not yet released (I am its maintainer). Cheers, Didier

Re: which desktop is more accessible in debian

2022-06-29 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi, Le 29/06/2022 à 14:25, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Roberto Burceni, le mer. 29 juin 2022 14:03:38 +0200, a ecrit: >> Which is the more accessible desktop at this moment between mate xlqt and >> gnome? > > We rather usually recommend mate. I was about to recommend to also give a go to LXQt

Re: Marked For Autoremoval: How can we help? :)

2022-05-28 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi Cindy and all, Caveat: I am not running Testing, actually no running Debian at all. This being said, I think that the best thing to do is feed the bug thread you mentioned, highlighting the consequences for users of Testing relying on a11t software, thus how important and urgent it is to fix

Re: Some times no sound after login into Mate

2022-05-02 Thread Didier Spaier
Le 02/05/2022 à 16:31, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Christian Schoepplein, le lun. 02 mai 2022 08:40:35 +0200, a ecrit: >> Is this another bad issue with pulseaudio and might a switch to >> pipewire help? > > I'd tend to believe so. > > Samuel Or use alsa, possibly through libao. Didier

Re: wpa_supplicant in console installation

2022-04-30 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi David http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/wpa/wpasupplicant_2.9.0-21_amd64.deb I hope it's the right one, not running Debian. Cheers, Didier Le 01/05/2022 à 00:46, David Hoff Jr a écrit : > I have installed a console only Debian 11 32 bit to an older netbook with the > netinstall

Re: results from trying to install speak-up

2022-03-28 Thread Didier Spaier
The last modification of speechd-up date back 2011 and this has been provided in all Debian versions ever since. Period. Le 28/03/2022 à 20:11, Chime Hart a écrit : > Well, thank you DJ, in following your link, I may have run in to helpful > packages which I will explore. Meanwhile you mention a

Re: Didier speak-with script?

2022-03-19 Thread Didier Spaier
The script will only work as intended if someone adapt it to Debian, or rewrite it for Debian. There is no other way. Didier Le 19/03/2022 à 23:28, Chime Hart a écrit : > Well, thank you David for your analysis. I tried your suggestions-and an only > difference, mine mentions Fenrir. > gzip:

Re: Crypted LVM and beep tones

2022-03-12 Thread Didier Spaier
but a power user could implement that. Bundle this (speaking) initial RAM disk with the kernel in an EFI stub is left to the reader as an exercise ;) Cheers Didier -- Didier Spaier Slint maintainer Le 12/03/2022 à 04:52, Nick Gawronski a écrit : > Hi, If speech is enabled and as I

Re: Crypted LVM and beep tones

2022-03-11 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi Cristian, I have requested that to upstream (grub-devel mailing list), without success: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2021-02/msg2.html Cheers, Didier Le 11/03/2022 à 19:39, Christian Schoepplein a écrit : > Hi, > > I have to crypt my harddisk for my working laptop.

Re: Bad Behavior by GRUB

2022-01-11 Thread Didier Spaier
Well I meant "two" more files and an "EFI" partition. I need some rest... Le 11/01/2022 à 11:46, Didier Spaier a écrit : > Hi, > > thanks for the files. > > First I need to more files: >>From Slint type: find /boot/efi > efislint >>From Debia

Re: Bad Behavior by GRUB

2022-01-11 Thread Didier Spaier
hat to > repair grub and so forth. > > If you want me to send this to the debian-accessibility list, I will do so. > > Thanks again for your help, but I still am not sure you are understanding me, > but time will tell. > > BRGDS, > David > > > On Mon, Jan 10

Re: Bad Behavior by GRUB

2022-01-11 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi Chile and All, Sorry for the too many typos, please read: As I wrote in the Slint list you can use the efibootmgr application shipped in Slint and also available in Debian for several purposes, among which a) Change the order of the boot entries permanently. b) Tell the firmware to boot a

Re: Bad Behavior by GRUB

2022-01-10 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi, Le 10/01/2022 à 21:15, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. a écrit : > GRUB now puts a "Preferred Boot" at the top of GRUB's choices so that it goes > directly to the last successfully used operating system. I think you are confusing the GRUB menu with the menu of the firmware. > But here's the PROBLEM. > >

Jos Lemmens passed away on November 9, 2021

2022-01-06 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi, I have been sad to learn that we lost Jos from his web page: http://jlemmens.nl/ http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/dv/staff/lemmens/jlemmens.nl/ Quote from this page: -- Update November 9, 2021: I am very sorry to inform you that Jos quietly passed away this morning. He will be remembered as our own

Re: creating and maintaining accessible Linux distros

2022-01-05 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello Rich Le 05/01/2022 à 09:04, Rich Morin a écrit : > In summary, I'm wondering what it would take to get versions of the more > accessible OS distros set up to run (via a VM) on pmOS. Does anyone else > think this is a feasible and/or worthwhile goal? Feasible, hardly (I concur on what

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-31 Thread Didier Spaier
On 31/12/2021 18:35, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Perhaps we can just dump the wiki page > > http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility > > somewhere in the installed system? If going this way I suggest to also ship the good ol' w3m in the installer to read the relevant part during installation, as it is

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-31 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi Mike and all,, also you can use w3m as both a web browser and a pager, so it allows to read documentation it text format as remote and local web pages. You can also use lynx as Chime wrote, and allo links. Also you can use several consoles at the same time, allowing for instance to read the

Re: Fwd: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-31 Thread Didier Spaier
David, I meant that nobody should have an exclusive choice, i.e. anyone should be allowed to use both a console and a graphical environment (possibly at the same time), not being limited to the mode of operation the used first after booting. Cheers, Didier On 31/12/2021 02:16, D.J.J. Ring, Jr.

Re: Fwd: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-30 Thread Didier Spaier
I meant "as the tune is only played" On 31/12/2021 01:57, Didier Spaier wrote: > it actually creates a sub-menu per boot entry, as the tune is > only pressed when you press Enter.

Re: Fwd: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-30 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi Chime, indeed GRUB can play tunes. I am guilty of a program making use of that to create and edit a boot menu, boot entries from top to bottom getting one more note. Only caveat: it actually creates a sub-menu per boot entry, as the tune is only pressed when you press Enter. I called it

Re: Debian Accessibility

2021-12-30 Thread Didier Spaier
system, the debian > installer is my favorite text based installer but I like how features are > being > borrowed from it, I've yet to do a debian installation video on youtube since > I've done others > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 6:13 PM Didier Spaier <mailto:did...@slint.fr>> wr

Re: Fwd: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-30 Thread Didier Spaier
Martin, you made my day with your story about the 6800-base microcomputer. I used a microcomputer for the first time circa 1978 (not sure an Olivetti Programma 101 with external magnetic cards to store programs and data that I used previously would be considered a computer nowadays). This

Re: Debian Accessibility

2021-12-30 Thread Didier Spaier
The Slint installer borrows at least one feature from the Debian installer: the way sound cards are probed just after booting, to find a working one (thanks Samuel). More generally, sharing ideas and features between distribution benefit users of all of them. Trying to find which one is the best

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-30 Thread Didier Spaier
On 30/12/2021 12:20, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Didier Spaier, le jeu. 30 déc. 2021 10:32:24 +0100, a ecrit: >> On 30/12/2021 08:10, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>> You also have the same choice on other distributions such as Debian. >>> >>> Please don't

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-30 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi Jordan, Answers to some of your statements after the quotes. On 30/12/2021 08:13, Jordan Livesey wrote: > chromium is only accessible on distros based on debian based > on a dependency that only debian has and that ubuntu also uses, fedora users > are out of luck here, so are arch and

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-30 Thread Didier Spaier
On 30/12/2021 08:10, Samuel Thibault wrote: > You also have the same choice on other distributions such as Debian. > > Please don't fall in a distro war, we don't need that. > > Samuel Well Samuel, you quoted me out of context, I am not the one who started the war. This being said, I usually

Re: Iggdrasill, a new amazing screen reader

2021-12-29 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi Jordan, the quote below make me think that you didn't try Slint yet. On 30/12/2021 00:11, Jordan Livesey wrote: > when it comes to accessible distros, debian is just too > good that its not recommended to use distros that are not debian Link to know what is Slint:

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-12-12 Thread Didier Spaier
Le 12/12/2021 à 16:21, Michael A Ray a écrit : > Orca is never going to adequately cover any application that is not a GTK > application. Never? Qt applications are already covered and as I have heard that there have been progress wrt accessibility of some KDE apps in recent versions, using KDE

Re: Christian beliebers here using Debian

2021-11-18 Thread Didier Spaier
I strongly recommend to anyone interested in religions to read "Et l'homme créa les dieux" by Pascal Boyer. Attention: as far as I know, this book is only available in French. I am 100% agnostic, I accept that others have religious beliefs as long as they do not claim that these beliefs are

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-11-05 Thread Didier Spaier
t : Hello, did you tried: https://github.com/yggdrasil-sr/yggdrasil-prototype/releases/download/v-0.4.20/yggdrasil-prototype.run Dne 05. 11. 21 v 14:21 Didier Spaier napsal(a): Hi, I built it just typing "cargo build" at the root of the source tree. this gave me a binary named y

Re: Iggdrasil, a new amazing screenreader

2021-11-05 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi, I built it just typing "cargo build" at the root of the source tree. this gave me a binary named yggdrasil-prototype. starting it didn't seem to do anything and no info on the website on how to use it. I don't have the time to investigate further asking questions to the developers,

Re: [slint] Re: After Upgrade 14 September 2021 Cannot Login to Mate (fwd)

2021-09-15 Thread Didier Spaier
in debian? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 05:46:50 From: Didier Spaier Reply-To: sl...@freelists.org To: sl...@freelists.org Subject: [slint] Re: After Upgrade 14 September 2021 Cannot Login to Mate Hello David, thanks for your bug report! The issue is that new

Re: Any users of non-UTF8 locales here?

2021-08-26 Thread Didier Spaier
Err, yes, but what is your point? How to make sure users have always LANG set? I don't know if/how Debian sets LANG by default but I have seen users of others distributions bypassing this settings one way or another, thn e womaining "someting is wrong".

Re: Any users of non-UTF8 locales here?

2021-08-26 Thread Didier Spaier
Le 26/08/2021 à 23:08, Samuel Thibault a écrit : Non-UTF8 locales are getting retired from Debian. Are there people here who are still using such locale? You can determine that by running locale charmap If it says UTF-8, you're safe. If it says something else, you need a migration plan :)

Re: debian bullseye on chrome os with crouton

2021-08-24 Thread Didier Spaier
Le 24/08/2021 à 23:27, Samuel Thibault a écrit : On the long run I don't think it will continue working. The use of /run/user is widespread nowadays, so software will cope with it. /dev/shm however is seen as a security concern, and people will want to replace its use with other means, to the

Re: debian bullseye on chrome os with crouton

2021-08-24 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi, Le 24/08/2021 à 21:48, Samuel Thibault a écrit : In stretch the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR variable was not set, and thus the speech-dispatcher socket would end up in the user's home, and I guess that happens to be working by luck with crouton. Of course, you can try to change the path of the socket

Re: firmware-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso Install

2021-08-22 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi David, After your nap (mine just ended, by the way), please provide commands' output requested by Samuel (on your Debian 11 system, of course). As a reward, Samuel will release speech-dispatcher 11.0, maybe :-) Cheers, Didier Le 22/08/2021 à 12:42, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. a écrit : Hi Samuel,

Re: large VGA font in speech-based installer.

2021-08-19 Thread Didier Spaier
Le 19/08/2021 à 09:18, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > But the actual result completely depends on the actual resolution that > your framebuffer is getting. In a previous Slint installer, to help people with low vision I used fbterm to display texts, adapting the font size to this resolution, to

Re: Debian 11 unofficial firmware first installation

2021-08-18 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello, Le 18/08/2021 à 23:40, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. a écrit : I was frustrated because after I learned from the Slint list that there was a problem with the release candidate of Debian, I wanted to test it myself, and I installed three different versions of Debian with firmware and ALL of them

Re: Screen Reader

2021-07-30 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi Aaron There are also blind users of the Linux console. They most often use links or lynks and read the screen with espeakup, fenrir, speechd-up a hard synthesizer (with speakup) or a Braille display. Cheers, Didier -- Didier Spaier Slint maintainer https://slint.fr Le 30/07/2021 à 20:51

Re: MATE Terminal Emulator Accessibility: it won't let users scroll upwards to review

2021-04-25 Thread Didier Spaier
Le 25/04/2021 à 10:58, Sebastian Humenda a écrit : Didier Spaier schrieb am 25.04.2021, 10:53 +0200: Le 25/04/2021 à 10:38, Sebastian Humenda a écrit : Is there a way to silence Orca to prevent "double" screen reading? I'd try this: in the Orca preferences GUI, tab Speech, unche

Re: MATE Terminal Emulator Accessibility: it won't let users scroll upwards to review

2021-04-25 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello, Le 25/04/2021 à 10:38, Sebastian Humenda a écrit : Is there a way to silence Orca to prevent "double" screen reading? I'd try this: in the Orca preferences GUI, tab Speech, uncheck "enable Speech" Cheers, Didier

Re: No BRLTTY with Bulseeye RC3

2021-03-25 Thread Didier Spaier
Ho Sebastian, maybe a path issue? Here brltty version 6.3 has its binary installed in /bin, dunno for Debian and its weird anyway that /bin be not in the PATH but still, what gives: 'which brltty'? Didier Le 25/03/2021 à 22:16, Sebastian Humenda a écrit : Hi I've downloaded the RC3 of the

Re: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation

2021-03-23 Thread Didier Spaier
Le 23/03/2021 à 22:57, Samuel Thibault a écrit : Hello, Nick Gawronski, le dim. 21 mars 2021 16:58:00 -0500, a ecrit: pactl info Connection failure: Connection refused pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused Ah, bummer, could you run instead sudo -u lightdm bash -c

Re: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation

2021-03-21 Thread Didier Spaier
Looks like orca is running for lightdm, with espeak-ng as TTS. Le 21/03/2021 à 21:58, Nick Gawronski a écrit : Hi, Here is that output.  Nick Gawronski Script started on 2021-03-21 15:56:41-05:00 [TERM="xterm-256color" TTY="/dev/pts/0" COLUMNS="120" LINES="30"] [?2004hroot@debian641:~# ps

Re: eBook-speaker 6.0

2021-03-01 Thread Didier Spaier
/bin/ebook-speaker LC_ALL=$LANG eBook-speaker $* "It works in Slint"(TM) as LANG is always set there (but not LC_ALL). Thanks again! Best regards, Didier Le 01/02/2021 à 22:47, Didier Spaier a écrit : Thanks Jos, I will try it as soon as possible, Best regards and stay safe, Didier L

Re: eBook-speaker 6.0

2021-02-01 Thread Didier Spaier
Thanks Jos, I will try it as soon as possible, Best regards and stay safe, Didier Le 01/02/2021 à 19:09, Jos Lemmens a écrit : On my site http://jlemmens.nl you will find eBook-speaker version 6.0. pulseaudio not always find all soundcards. So from this version on, eBook-speaker brings up a

Re: Embosser on USB parallel

2020-10-05 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi, Le 06/10/2020 à 00:42, Raphaël POITEVIN a écrit : > CUPS-BRF (Virtual BRF Braille Printer) I'd try that. Cheers, Didier

Re: Larger Console Fonts

2020-07-06 Thread Didier Spaier
Le 07/07/2020 à 00:19, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Hello, > > D.J.J. Ring, Jr., le lun. 06 juil. 2020 10:03:27 -0400, a ecrit: >> Is there a larger size font? > > No. This has been requested already As an aside, there's also fbterm which can draw characters of any size. Indeed it doesn't work

Re: Why doesn't this page work with Mate?

2020-06-13 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello John, I tried it on Slint with Chrome on Firefox on Mate and it works. It is also accessible with speech from Orca, in both Firefox and Chrome. I am not able to try with braille though. Maybe post on the Orca mailing list? Best regards, Didier Le 12/06/2020 à 06:12, John J. Boyer a

Re: How do I delete a file in Mate?

2020-06-08 Thread Didier Spaier
or right 6 times to reach the Extensions tab. Arrow down several times to reach the gksu extension. Press the space bar to toggle the extension on or off. Press Enter to close the window. Cheers, Didier Le 08/06/2020 à 11:56, Richard Owlett a écrit : > On 06/08/2020 02:52 AM, Didier Spaier wr

Re: How do I delete a file in Mate?

2020-06-08 Thread Didier Spaier
when the regular user doesn't own the file. > > Regards, > > David > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 16:24 Didier Spaier wrote: > >> Maybe off topic, but a good reading: >> https://wpollock.com/AUnix1/FilePermissions.htm >> >> Le 06/06/2020 à 22:10, Didier

Re: How do I delete a file in Mate?

2020-06-06 Thread Didier Spaier
Maybe off topic, but a good reading: https://wpollock.com/AUnix1/FilePermissions.htm Le 06/06/2020 à 22:10, Didier Spaier a écrit : > PS: the file should be owned by the user who tries to delete it > if the directory where it is stored has the sticky bit set. This > is generally

Re: How do I delete a file in Mate?

2020-06-06 Thread Didier Spaier
PS: the file should be owned by the user who tries to delete it if the directory where it is stored has the sticky bit set. This is generally the case for the /tmp directory. Didier Le 06/06/2020 à 21:49, Didier Spaier a écrit : > Hello John. > > To delete a file in Caja if it has

Re: How do I delete a file in Mate?

2020-06-06 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello John. To delete a file in Caja if it has the focus, indeed use the del key. But this can fail in two cases: 1. This file can't be deleted as it has the "i" (meaning immutable) attribute, as indicated in "man chattr" 2. The user running caja does not have the "write" privilege for the

Re: Audio problems with Debian, speech output and the latest VMware Workstation release :-(

2020-06-05 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi, Maybe OT, but very possibly Qemu does a better job than VMware Workstation 15. At least its audio is very good, with a choice between several sound cards. You can find an installer here: https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/ Cheers, Didier Le 05/06/2020 à 09:44, Christian Schoepplein a écrit : >

Re: Orca question

2020-06-05 Thread Didier Spaier
get --install-set slint > > should update the current version, right? > > Thanks, > > Pawel > > On 2020-06-04 7:03 p.m., Didier Spaier wrote: >> Hello Pawel and all, >> >> You made me remember that I have stored the lynx.cfg proposed by Jude >>

Re: Orca question

2020-06-04 Thread Didier Spaier
ith Speakup for instance. > > I believe Didier mentioned in one of his email that Slint respects lynx's > developer configuration or so and it should be up to a user to make any > needed changes. > > Best, > > Pawel > > On 2020-06-04 3:09 p.m., Didier Spaier wrote

Re: Orca question

2020-06-04 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi David, currently we ship lynx-2.9.0dev.4 in Slint, but I hardly understand why lynx itself would behave differently between Debian (which version?) and Slint on this regard, but maybe if your config file makes a difference. Anyway we need more information to investigate. Please attach your

Re: Orca question

2020-06-03 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi David, lynx is really better used on the command line with a console screen reader, like espeakup, speechd-up or fenrir, or brltty if you have a Braille device. Cheers, Didier Le 29/05/2020 à 01:46, David Hoff Jr a écrit : > I have asked this question of the Orca mail list but since I am

Re: The mate-user-guide is inaccessible.

2020-05-20 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello John, In Debian Buster Mate is at version 1.20 but in Slint currently it is at version 1.24. This could explain (or not: to be honest I didn't check) some of the differences. This being said the sources files of the various components of Mate come from the same repositories, but the

Re: The mate-user-guide is inaccessible.

2020-05-20 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello John, As Alex said, at least here (Slint distribution) there are several ways to access the help for the Mate desktop: 1. With the focus on the desktop, just press F1. 2. Press Alt + F1 to put the focus on the Application menu, arrow right twice to switch to the System menu, then Arrow

Re: Is there a Mate mailing list?

2020-05-10 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi John, No, the haven't a mailing list. They have an IRC channel though: mate @ irc.freenode.net I hope pidgin is accessible enough with braille through Orca. But I guess your questions can be answered in debian-accessibility as well. Also, the Slint distribution that I maintain also ships

Re: Synthesis volume in the debian installer

2020-05-01 Thread Didier Spaier
Le 01/05/2020 à 12:22, john doe a écrit : > the cp utility also provide the -v flag. Yes, if you use the version shipped in the GNU coreutils package. But as this option is not specified by POSIX one can't be sure that it be available. I also try to avoid the GNU extensions of grep, sed, and

Re: Synthesis volume in the debian installer

2020-05-01 Thread Didier Spaier
Le 01/05/2020 à 11:54, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > I don't know if cp will accept a block device as target, but dd will cp does too, I learned that from Thomas Schmitt. As it takes some time to complete for a big file and doesn't provide an output I usually use it like this/ cp /path/to/iso

Re: Noob

2020-04-12 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello Blaine, For folks with low version I highly recommend using the Compiz window manager. I have no idea if/how it can be installed in LMDE. I didn't find it this repository: packages.linuxmint.com But I am not a Mint user myself, so it's quite possible that I miss something obvious.

Re: bookworm for accessibility

2020-03-23 Thread Didier Spaier
Le 23/03/2020 à 10:24, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Jos Lemmens, le lun. 23 mars 2020 10:01:14 +0100, a ecrit: >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 07:54:39AM +0100, mattias wrote: >>> but ebookspeaker are a consoel app? >> Indeed, but maybe it also works in xterm. I don't use X myself, so >> I'm not sure.

Re: OCRDesktop

2020-02-21 Thread Didier Spaier
a shortcut to start OCRdesktop. That's what I did to test here. Best regards, Didier Le 21/02/2020 à 09:41, Linux A11y a écrit : > Howdy, > > The OCRdesktop git is already tesseract 4 compatible. > > Cheers chrys > > Von meinem iPhone gesendet > >> Am 21.02.2020

Re: OCRDesktop

2020-02-21 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi Pavel, I can't answer for Debian specifically, but last time I checked OCRdesktop was not yet compatible with Tesseract 4, due to dependency of OCRdesktop itself not yet compatible with Tesseract 4 if I remember well. Maybe things have changed, I will check. MeanwhileOCRdesktop is listed

Re: Large Cursors

2020-02-11 Thread Didier Spaier
I meant "why post in this list", not "why not..." Le 2/11/20 à 11:04 PM, Didier Spaier a écrit : > In Slint this works, I just checked. > > Err, my mistake: these commands should be typed as regular user, not as > as root as I wrongly wrote, and that's almost

Re: Large Cursors

2020-02-11 Thread Didier Spaier
Le 2/11/20 à 10:49 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. a écrit : > I'm using Slint. > > David > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 16:28 Didier Spaier <mailto:did...@slint.fr>> wrote: > > I don't know how Mate configuration is done in Debian. > > Please someone who knows, an

Re: Large Cursors

2020-02-11 Thread Didier Spaier
te - the cursor is now black. I wanted to see if > that command worked, but that doesn't work either. > > The size commands don't work and the color commands have no effect. > > Thanks, > David > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 3:58 PM Didier Spaier wrote: >> >

Re: Large Cursors

2020-02-11 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi David, type as root: gsettings set org.mate.peripherals-mouse cursor-size 48 If that's not enough: gsettings set org.mate.peripherals-mouse cursor-size 60 and so on. The default size is 24. For a white cursor, type: gsettings set org.mate.peripherals-mouse cursor-theme mate For a black

Re: Console Font for Lower Vision People

2020-01-07 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello, Le 7/01/20 à 16:55, Alexandre ARNAUD a écrit : > Does the TerminusBold32x16.psf.gz should work too? that's the same font, only the shipped glyphs differ, ter-v* having the most. From the README: 2.4. Legend. names mappingscovered codepage(s) ter-1* iso01, iso15,

Re: Sv: Re: grub

2019-12-07 Thread Didier Spaier
Sorry for this dupicate post using another SMTP srver, my mistake. Le 7/12/19 à 21:55, Didier Spaier a écrit : Well, I assume that Jude answered privately as I didn't see his message in the list. This being said: @ Mattias: it doesn't hurt to be polite, let alone kind with people trying

Re: Sv: Re: grub

2019-12-07 Thread Didier Spaier
Well, I assume that Jude answered privately as I didn't see his message in the list. This being said: @ Mattias: it doesn't hurt to be polite, let alone kind with people trying to help you, even if you think that they misunderstood your question. (written before Samuel just posted something

Re: Sv: Re: grub

2019-12-07 Thread Didier Spaier
I forgot to say: to get out of grub-emu you need to press c to get an (emulated) GRUB prompt, the type: exit 3. Meanwhile, you can use grub-emu to display the Grub boot menu in a console or in an accessible graphical terminal: _ install grub-emu is not yet done _ type as root or using sudo:

Re: Sv: Re: grub

2019-12-07 Thread Didier Spaier
Well, I assume that Jude answered privately as I didn't see his message in the list. This being said: @ Mattias: it doesn't hurt to be polite, let alone kind with people trying to help you, even if you think that they misunderstood your question. (written before Samuel just posted something

Re: Future of Accessibility in Debian

2019-11-08 Thread Didier Spaier
Hi, +1 to what Alex said, and QT accessibilty is progressing too. And indeed console applications will continue to work. As the saying goes: "Don't destroy your now worrying about tomorrow" Best, Didier Le 08/11/2019 à 09:29, Alex ARNAUD a écrit : Hello Thomas, To be fully clear: There is

Re: Fwd: installing speakup (etc) in a VirtualBox VM

2019-10-26 Thread Didier Spaier
Erratum: I should have written python3-brlapyi and/or libbrlapi instead of (or in addition to?) xbrlapi. But, you get the idea. On 26/10/2019 21:42, Didier Spaier wrote: Hello, On 26/10/2019 16:30, Rich Morin wrote: I'd like to follow up with a request for help in documenting the kinds

Re: Fwd: installing speakup (etc) in a VirtualBox VM

2019-10-26 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello, On 26/10/2019 16:30, Rich Morin wrote: I'd like to follow up with a request for help in documenting the kinds of major dependencies that exist among the a11y-related packages (eg, brltty, emacspeak, espeak-ng, espeak-ng-data, espeakup, fenrir, mbrola-*, orca, speech-dispatcher). I'd

Re: Handling Slow Serial Input

2019-10-09 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello, the documentation of the parameters in /sys/accesibilty/speakup is being currently enhanced, cf.: http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/2019-September/062058.html say_word_ctl is not yet documented in the proposed patch but there is this comment in the main.c source file of speakup:

Re: I have emailed twice

2019-09-16 Thread Didier Spaier
This is probably a spam or scam. My advice: don't answer it. On 16/09/2019 13:48, Scott Miller wrote: Hello debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org I have tried to email this your debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org mail account twice but I got no response, please if you have seen this

Re: speakup-ng clipboard functions broken

2019-09-08 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello Jude, 1. The behavior of speakup wrt copy and paste depends on the kernel in use, as speakup is a kernel driver. 2. The kernel shipped in Slint is 4.19.67 since 27 August 2019 and is not patched. Did you upgrade it recently running upgrade-kernel? 3. In Debian 10.1 (at least from the

Re: debian 10.1

2019-09-07 Thread Didier Spaier
On 07/09/2019 21:45, Samuel Thibault wrote: It can't be sure, that's the problem, because hardware detection nowadays is completely asynchronous, there is no such thing as "I have finished detecting hardware", a USB device might show up really late for instance. Then why not just display in

Re: debian 10.1

2019-09-07 Thread Didier Spaier
avior looks slightly weird" (to me, maybe not to others). Didier Spaier, le ven. 06 sept. 2019 15:58:53 +0200, a ecrit: tested on both a qemu VM with 1, 2 and 3 soundcards on on bare metal with a HDA Intel sound card. It all cases it looks like the installer first skips the first soundc

Re: debian 10.1

2019-09-06 Thread Didier Spaier
On 06/09/2019 16:11, Samuel Thibault wrote: Didier Spaier, le ven. 06 sept. 2019 15:58:53 +0200, a ecrit: tested on both a qemu VM with 1, 2 and 3 soundcards Are these soundcards all the same kind, or different kinds? Different kinds (see attached pic) on on bare metal with a HDA Intel

Re: debian 10.1

2019-09-06 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello, On 06/09/2019 04:13, Samuel Thibault wrote: It's now uploaded. I have made a mini-iso on http://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/tmp/mini.iso it seems to have the sound issue with intel HDA boards fixed. I.e. it will be fixed in buster 10.1. Note that booting such mini-iso can take some

Fwd: Re: webmail and email from command line

2019-08-30 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello, I am re-posting what follows that didn't reach the list for some reason since one hour. I apologize in advance if this results in a duplicate message. Didier Sent again Message Hello David, indeed the one to use is (maintained by Storm Dragon):

Re: webmail and email from command line

2019-08-30 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello, You just need to run it. Assuming it is in your $PATH just type in a console as regular user: fleacollar.sh then press Enter. But maybe I misunderstood your question? Best regards Didier On 30/08/2019 18:10, dhof...@att.net wrote: You suggested 'fleacollar.sh' so I downloaded it and

Re: Buster and Orca

2019-08-26 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello On 26/08/2019 22:12, Samuel Thibault wrote: Sebseb01, le lun. 26 août 2019 15:49:22 +0200, a ecrit: If i launch pulseaudio in terminal it say it already launched. Was it running under your user identity, or something else? Ans after this if i'm logout and login again, sound working

Re: sound card ordering

2019-08-23 Thread Didier Spaier
Helo, On 23/08/2019 17:35, Keith Barrett wrote: On 23/08/2019 00:08, Didier Spaier wrote: Hello, Just to be sure, please attach /etc/modprobe.d/soundcards.conf to your next post OK, here it is: options index=0 options index=1 It should be: options snd_hda_intel index=0 options

Re: sound card ordering

2019-08-22 Thread Didier Spaier
Hello, Just to be sure, please attach /etc/modprobe.d/soundcards.conf to your next post And type as root: chmod 644 /etc/modprobe.d/soundcards.conf although it has probably these permissions already. Best, Didier On 22/08/2019 23:05, Keith Barrett wrote: On 21/08/2019 19:10, Didier Spaier

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