I've had this happen a number of times on arch, but never on Ubuntu or Vinux,
so not sure how it would be dealt with.
You'd not have a root PW by default on Ubuntu, most people do not make one, so
no idea how to deal with this if it were to happen, but again, never seen it
myself on the distro i
Please explain a bit more.
Did you install the old ubuntu on to the internal drive, or were you trying to
do that when the cable unplugged?
Is there anything on the internal drive at all that you know of?
You can try typing your user name, pressing enter and then your password at the
screen you
Depending on what you mean by a usb drive, e.g. I guess you mean a standard
hard drive that you will connect to your computer via a usb port, but maybe
you mean a usb flash memory stick,(thumbdrive, pendrive, or what ever you like
to call those),
how you partition will vary.
If it is a standa
I don't remember if the following commands are in the wiki article, but in case
I don't get to check and if need be add them before you read it:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Can help you with some of the actual configuration changes.
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Try doing it from tjhe command line.
You need more than the core pkgs to get all the configuration goodies for mate
as I recall. You really need the mate extras or what ever that group is
called on Ubuntu. System resources are not going to be gobbled by adding the
extras.
To change language fr
Agreed.
Back-ups should generally not be a crazy resource intensive job. Of course if
it wants to make a back up each time any file changes or something...lol
How old is your hardware, and what are its basic specs, i.e. how much RAM, what
CPU does it have and how many corfes at what clock speed
I think I misunderstood your original question. I thought you were talking
about the backup utility that is part of Ubuntu.
Systemback sounds like it's some kind of 3rd party application, and I've never
tried it if it is/no idea re whether it's at all accessible, good enough
to use, or somethin
I and others have certainly used the Ubuntu GUI.
I don't remember any issues re accessibility at all.
I have mostly used the oldschool rsync for my backups however, so have not
tried the gui in the last few months.
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Daniel Crone wrote:
Wed, Feb
Hey buddy, you will need to enable the ubuntu accessibiolity PPA, well actually
add it to your software sources.
This can be done from the GUI using a program like the software center,
synaptic, etc.
I usually do this from a terminal window or a VT-console, (the latter using
speakup).
I have t
You get the launcher with alt f1, i.e. no full aps menu is there.
There are ways you can get categorized aps menus, e.g. some file managers allow
you to display them, but you'll need to change freom default settings.
Pcmanfm is the one that worked well for me on Ubuntu as I recall, but I can't
Bad move responding to a digest, at least with subject as a digest number.
As a friendly reminder I am sending this msg, but usually just delete such
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Glenn / Lenny wrote:
Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 01:18:30PM -0600
> Since the wired speakers d
On some machines/ubuntu installations I've had to press the orca hotkey combo
twice to get speech, and on some installations I'[ve had to press f10, right
arrow to accessibility and up to screen reader and press it that way rather
than using the hotkey.
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und card.
>
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, B. Henry wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 19:32:02
> > From: B. Henry
> > To: Ubuntu Accessibility ,
> > orca-l...@gnome.org
> > Subject: Re: Ubuntu-mate-16.04: orca won't keep running
> >
> > I wro
They hae a list of installed packages on their website as I recall, and if you
have grml you have that list on the .iso you installed from and can of
course check with dpkg -l|grep package name
Vinux comes with this program on it, honestly do not remember for sure about
grml, and they removed a
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B. Henry wrote:
Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 07:57:08PM -0500
> I just made a bootable usb-stick with the latest ubuntu-mate, 16 .04, on it.
> Super alt s does not start orca, but either from the run box, or a terminal I
> can start orca.
> I h
I just made a bootable usb-stick with the latest ubuntu-mate, 16 .04, on it.
Super alt s does not start orca, but either from the run box, or a terminal I
can start orca.
I hear "screenreader on", and right away, "screenreader off".
This behavior occurs 100% of the time for me, tried 3 reboots.
First, for those who have not heard of "snappy packages", here's a link that
gives a few starter commands and a very brief explanation of what snap is
about.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-install-snap-packages-on-ubuntu-16-04/?ftag=TRE475558a&bhid=22717637366411097904609173447
As the
I have voice chat servers, both teamtalk and mumble configured to handle
moderately sized groups, but they are certainly not at this point intended to
be Ubuntu specific.
I'd be willing to addanother mumble server if there was demand, but I do not
know that there is.
There was a vinux ventrilo
I use linphone daily, mostly from the linphonc commandline interface, but
occasionally from the graphical interface.
It is the best and most accessible SIP phone available in my opinion, and think
most screenreader users agree.
Exact configuration varies between SIP providers.
I'd recommend using
ook at this today and tomorrow.
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Glenn / Lenny wrote:
Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 08:32:17AM -0500
>Message: 5
>Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 05:22:49 -0600
>From: "B. Henry" <[1]burt1ib...@gmail.com>
>To: [2]ubuntu-accessibi
There is more than one way you can to this, but basically you either make a
link to a .desktop file, the files used to launch graphical applications, or
copy the file it self from /usr/share/applications to your desktop.
You can even sym link directly to an executable.
I think what Kendell was s
And how did you add your own network?
This should be easy.
Did you not remove the mate bottom panel, and perhaps relocate the top panel to
the bottom?
You can only read one panel, and it will be the last installed.
Put all your icons and applets on the same panel, and things work as they
should
Honestly, the current state of the classicmenu-indicator is much less helpful
than it could be in my opinion.
There are too many categories, and a large percentage of items appear in
multiple sub-menus.
I mean, really, sundry and other?
This is too bad as this was a nicer tool back when I firs
This does indeed sound very good, and of course leads one to wonder about
sharing custom profiles.
Is there now, or will there in the planned future be an easy way to export and
import accessiblity profiles?
Thanks much to you and anyone who has worked on enhancing this functionality.
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I do not know exactly what you are trying to say, but it appears you are mis
informed.
Orca works with most version s of firefox very well.
There was a time, between firefox25 and 29 or 30 where things wer pretty sad,
and one or two release/builds have com eout over the years with an
accessibl
Sounds interesting/looking forward to checking it out.
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Luke Yelavich wrote:
Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:09:46PM +1100
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:06:15AM AEDT, B. Henry wrote:
> > Is accessibility overall going to be similar in 16.04 to rece
Is accessibility overall going to be similar in 16.04 to recent Ubuntu
releases? have things changed much on the accessiblity front since 14.04?
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Luke Yelavich wrote:
Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:07:52AM +1100
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 04:34:14
Last I heard, chromium was not working with the google TTSs at all.
As chrome isworking with speech-dispatcher again maybe chromium is working with
sd again also.
It did not work as well as chrome back when it could be used with chromevox and
speech-dispatcher, but was usable for me. Others fou
Yes, and I generally do this when I change the topic, but occasionaly do
forget.
I also often change the subject line even when I did not change the subject
myself, and even bring this up frequently enough that I sometimes worry that
folks will get tired of me trying to correct bad posting prac
What system do you want to back up, i.e. what OS, distro if Linux, a system
that is currently installed, or the ubuntu-mate you say you are going to
install?
Have you installed a lot of extra software beyond what came on the installer
image you used?
Is all the extra software you installed in re
It is something specific to your system if mate term is faster. It's as close
to the same thing as is possible, was actually the exact same size, and
had 0 differences one time when I dcompared.
Thunderbird works perfectly with unity. It sounds like something is messed up,
corrupted or badly co
ake the thing feel sluggish or
> unresponsive. It's why I switched from gnome to mate on my mac, gnome
> did not like my mac much.
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark
>
>
> B. Henry wrote:
> > It is something specific to your system if mate term is faster. It's as
> &
nome
> is, my opinion only, cpu usage. They use up a lot of the cpu cycles if
> you have a slow one, and that can make the thing feel sluggish or
> unresponsive. It's why I switched from gnome to mate on my mac, gnome
> did not like my mac much.
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark
&g
's thread, didn't spell check or whatever. There's
> plenty to read on the web and don't let someone else's poor habits
> waste your time.
>
> On 18/03/16 14:07, B. Henry wrote:
> >Yes, and I generally do this when I change the topic, but occasionaly
I'd say it's not going to happen for you/get an android phone, or iphone if you
must for now.
Maybe the powers that be will care enough to invest paying Luke and perhaps
someone to help him to get things working for us in a year or two, but I'm
honestly not particularly optimistic.
If they ca
A couple odf things:
your
apt-get update command
would have to be run as root, e.g. with sudo to work, and would have to be
connected to the internet unless you had new software sources on a local
network or locall attched disk and had that local repository refferenced in
your sources lists.
I
This is a great project, much after my own heart. I started thinking about
about something like this kind of thing a long time ago, but more
specifically last December when people were discussing their need of a good
dasy player for Linux on the Orca list.
I am really excited to hear about the s
Yeah, thanks for this important resource Luke.
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Luke Yelavich wrote:
Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 08:54:35AM +1000
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 07:58:19AM AEST, kk wrote:
> > Wow,
> > Who maintains this ppa for accessibility devel?
>
> I do.
>
> Luke
>
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yes, it will certainly build
You might need to get some at-spi packages from an extra repo, let me check on
something and I'll post back.
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José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 04:06:31PM -0300
> Hi Lucas.
> In my opinion 3.1
16.2 or 16.3 I think it is, but you can build the latest development version if
you want to test even newer stuff.
There are instructions on the orca website
isit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
The manual is at
http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/a
It is generally quite good and stable now, some things work that did notin
12.04, language support for instance was silent in precise, now it works well
with orca.
Overall there is a slight difference in the feel, it's a very different unity
under the hood, but most key bindings are the same.
nly one account shown in the login
> screen. so I think it is not lightdm. In the software Centre I delete the
> Lubuntu-desktop but I still stay with another dm.
> Milton
>
> Op 28-04-15 om 05:39 schreef B. Henry:
> >It is once logged in for sure, but I thought it was diffe
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Christopher Chaltain wrote:
Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 07:59:11PM -0500
> I think it's control+super+s in Trusty.
>
> On 04/27/2015 07:33 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> >Doesn't control s still start orca on the log-in screen in ubuntu?
> >
> >
>
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> [mailto:ubuntu-accessibility-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of B. Henry
> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 8:34 PM
> To: Milton
> Subject: Re: how to get Orca to speak in lightdm
>
> Doesn't control s stil
Doesn't control s still start orca on the log-in screen in ubuntu?
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Milton wrote:
Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 09:56:36PM +0200
> Hello List,
>
> I use Ubuntu Trusty with Orca 3.14.3 in Unity. I thought to show some
> friends the Lubuntu desktop and insta
This was asked on another list, and I do not know the answer.
Anyone?
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Subject: VINUX-SUPPORT: Sofware center keeps refreshing.
Hi!
Is it possible to make Ubuntu software center not to refresh evry no
That's right, everyone knows this.
You can find a post on the vinux list regarding how to install ubuntu-server
with speech.
It's been reposted a few times, starting maybe a year and a bit ago.
server's do not have graphical interfaces traditionally, and if one is
installed it's usually somethin
gt; On Aug 13, 2014, at 2:05 PM, B. Henry wrote:
>
> > You have enough with the system you mention to run normal ubuntu more or
> > less well if you do not multitask much, but
> > Ubuntu gnome should be a bit lighter on memory usage, and do better with
> > accessi
You have enough with the system you mention to run normal ubuntu more or less
well if you do not multitask much, but
Ubuntu gnome should be a bit lighter on memory usage, and do better with
accessibility in some areas.
You will have to configure things a bit using any other desktop, but this can
Subject says it:
Ubuntu One is going away, most of it anyway. The most important part for me and
probably a few or more of you is that the Dropbox-like synchronized storage is
being shutdown with all content to be deleted in July.
Here's a link to read the basics.
Canonical to close Ubuntu One c
I do not know from your message for sure what's going on as orca should be on
the ubuntu10.10 disk, guess you updated to a newer orca. Remember that unless
you got something from the xdesktop branch it either won't work, or won't
perform correctly.
You want orca 3.1.9 something, xdesktop, or I
> Although I to at least partially agree with some of Gabes opinions, it seems
> that he is quick to post steriotypical generalizations.
> My observations are very much in line with yours, CJ, although of course
> there are a few of the types floating around that Gabe mentions. i do find
> t
You were unclear as to your past experience, or actually mentioned nothing, so
as is usually the case people try and give more basic information than may be
called for just in case.
You certainly miss the main point though.
The interface must be accessible, and I for one tried to steer you towa
For sure fogrget 11.04 unless it's already working well for you as updating is
problematic, and at best requires changing software sources.
Also, that unity is not as accessible as 12.04, and the orca you can run on the
classic gnome desktop for 11.04 doesn't work with quite a few things that ne
I see in the US is that too many
> "blind people" want everything for free, they whine about anything that
> doesn't go their way, and believe employers should exempt them out of every
> minor aspect of a job that requires them to "work hard".
>
> ---
t saying a blind programmer
> between jobs or projects may have very legitimate reasons to spend
> some of that time working on something else or in some other area.
>
> On 11/03/2013 11:11 AM, B. Henry wrote:
> >Of course. The other part of this includes more willingness to back su
t; is constrained and it takes a while to come up to speed on some of
> this access technology infrastructure.
>
>
> On 11/01/2013 07:39 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> >Ah_men!
> >
> >Sadly, neither drugs nor prayer seem to be able to give many blind folk
> >that; an
Fair and far enough!
I doubt I'll live to see any other star, nor earth critters traveling to one;
but a viable sub-culture seems completely reasonable.
If we continue down this path of the "1%" vs. the "99%" then I think some
groups must inevitably split off from, or better coaless out of the
Ah_men!
Sadly, neither drugs nor prayer seem to be able to give many blind folk that;
and I think we all know of more than a couple bind folks who have both 1 or
more degrees and above average inteligence who are unemployed.
One alternative is for more of those who have some potential as far
Thanks much, will take a fresh look at this progra
m soon.
I also have good results with the weather indicater which is similar to the
weather applet I used in earlier Ubuntu releases. It does crash sometimes, but
not that often for me. Others have reported some issues, but I don't know of
any comon denominater between the users who've had more problems
So the radio-tray indicater does not have accessibility/usability issues now in
12.04-precise?
I tried this before, I think on Lucid anddon't remember anything accept that it
seemed to be useless with orca. Perhaps the change from an old style applet to
an indicator has made things work differe
I totally agree that we need to work on FoS alternatives to the IBMtts; but for
now for some languages voxin is the most viable alternative. I don't want to
see the day where folks must keep using old operating system(s) just to have an
understandable voice in their language, but this day is at
The svox voices were donated I thought, or was this only for Windows usage?
I don't like pico svox at all for English, but found them quite listenable in
French, and a much better alternative to espeak for Spanish; and at the moment
the only alternative for Spanish in Linux that's of quality for
I'm using LibreOffice 3.5, and hav been doing so for a while now. I do not use
calc, so can't speak to its accessibility, but writer works very well for me.
Actualy, I think I did look at one sheet in calc, but I have almost never had
need to use calc or its microsoft equivalent.
On Tue, Apr 0
Yours is one of the first names I noticed on the U.A. list which I subscribed
to with-in days of starting to use Vinux and Ubuntu in mid 2010, and while
we've had very little personal interaction your contributions have been noted
and appreciated by me. paths do diverge as they come together, an
hanks for any help.
Glenn
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I might have not been clear in my other reply; so, you will probably need both
linux-headers and linux-headers-generic with numbers that are in sync with your
kernel version.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 05:01:12PM -0200, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> Hi.
> If memory serves me, I had a si
Well, if you are missing this it's most likely called either linux-headers, or
linux-headers-generic, unless names were changed after natty.
I have 0 idea if this is the actual problem, but it is worth looking in to.
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>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 05:01:12PM -0200, José Vilmar E
> does not have and that you wished it was there in Orca/ Ubuntu/ what
> ever.
> This helps because proprietary fokes are not going to listen any
> ways, FOSS hackers do.
> happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
> On 01/07/2013 11:20 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> >I don't see how it
y concerns.
>
> The work arounds to get speech working in both the command line and the
> GUI as you jump back and forth between the two are pretty trivial. I
> personally wouldn't push this too high on the Ubuntu accessibility queue.
>
> On 07/01/13 11:50, B. Henry wrote:
>
Agreed as is often the case.
I will say that vinegar's fine, but well applied. Take that how you as the
readers will...lol.
I just want to add that no one has to take the lead, or decide they want to
take the lead to be of value in the fight. And if it turns out not to be a
fight and more of a
I don't see how it's so hard, or detramental to your points to remove the shiny
stuff line from a comment is hard, or in anyway takes away from the force of
what you are saying; butt burnout is burnout.
I wouldn't have even written to say that. I will say that you have just
discovered or admitt
the functions jaws can offer, but very true that
> ubuntu is a great system and I agree with all said that it must be
> taken much more seriously. I just think that many people should not be
> blamed if they stil use windows as there are reasons for that. A
> balance is always helthy
Well, for better or worse, "out of sight, out of mind", seems to be standard
human behavior.
Hopefully a firm but gentle reminder about accessibility will be enough to get
an honest reaction from Canonical, but there's always the chance of yet
another fight on any given day; and a garanty of m
etc. to simply stand aside and let Linux
> > become less accessibly relevant than Windows. It's sad that I enjoy
> > using my VirtualBox Windows 7 install more than I do Ubuntu for many
> > tasks, and is sad when accessibility developers ask me why I don't
> > just
> Very good point. I am not sure that "shiny things" reffed mobile Ubuntu, and
> my first thought was not this; but even if a spiffier more polished graphical
> experience was what was being talked about your take is still valid.
> There are probably some less than ideal moves being made at Ca
g known so for quite some time, and even
after having just read/replied to this conversation, I _almost sent this reply
to Christopher and not to the list right now!
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