Update on Ubuntu 11.10

2012-02-24 Thread chris hallsworth
Hello all. Well, I tried what I was going to do, but it didn't work as planned. I installed it via Wubi, selecting Braille as the accessibility option. Due to bugs in 11.10 I didn't get speech at the log in screen, and Orca didn't come up automatically after log in. This however worked with

Re: ubuntu 11.10 orca and speakup do not work together

2012-01-20 Thread José Vilmar Estácio de Souza
all Subject says it all, I find that I cannot get orca and speakup to run at the same time on my installation of ubuntu 11.10. It's either one or the other, but never both at the same time. I can tell that both of them are running. For example now, I can hear speakup. I can confirm that orca

Re: ubuntu 11.10 orca and speakup do not work together

2012-01-20 Thread Justin Harford
in the graphical environment, you can use orca and speakup at the same time. On 01/20/2012 02:10 AM, Justin Harford wrote: Hi all Subject says it all, I find that I cannot get orca and speakup to run at the same time on my installation of ubuntu 11.10. It's either one or the other, but never

Re: ubuntu 11.10 orca and speakup do not work together

2012-01-20 Thread Justin Harford
and speakup to run at the same time on my installation of ubuntu 11.10. It's either one or the other, but never both at the same time. I can tell that both of them are running. For example now, I can hear speakup. I can confirm that orca is running because I see the start up splash thing when orca

ubuntu 11.10 orca and speakup do not work together

2012-01-19 Thread Justin Harford
Hi all Subject says it all, I find that I cannot get orca and speakup to run at the same time on my installation of ubuntu 11.10. It's either one or the other, but never both at the same time. I can tell that both of them are running. For example now, I can hear speakup. I can confirm

Re: How to Change Mouse Cursor Theme on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

2012-01-18 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Petra Ritter wrote: Hi, Is this the only Way to change the Mouse-Corsor in color and size? http://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2011/12/how-to-change-mouse-cursor-theme-on.html I need a black and a bigger Mouse cursor, to be able to see it. I don't need the hight color thema I

Re: Fwd: [u-a-dev] Ubuntu 11.10 Accessibility Human Factors Issues

2012-01-13 Thread Christopher Chaltain
...@gmail.com To: ubuntu-accessibility-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [u-a-dev] Ubuntu 11.10 Accessibility Human Factors Issues Dear All I have been using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS since it was released and have found it to be the best desktop user interface in existence. It is rich in functions

Re: [u-a-dev] Ubuntu 11.10 Accessibility Human Factors Issues

2012-01-13 Thread Penelope Stowe
: lenscom...@gmail.com lenscom...@gmail.com To: ubuntu-accessibility-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [u-a-dev] Ubuntu 11.10 Accessibility Human Factors Issues Dear All I have been using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS since it was released and have found it to be the best desktop user interface in existence

Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu 11.10 Gnome

2012-01-08 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 04:36:53AM GMT, Alex Midence wrote: Hi, list, Thought I'd bring this up here and see what came of it. Any chance the now officially released version of the qt-at-spi bridge might make it into Oneiric? I imagine the crashes people have experienced with it along with

Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu 11.10 Gnome

2012-01-06 Thread Alex Midence
Hi, list, Thought I'd bring this up here and see what came of it. Any chance the now officially released version of the qt-at-spi bridge might make it into Oneiric? I imagine the crashes people have experienced with it along with many other bugs would diminish considerably if this were done.

Re: Ubuntu 11.10 on a USB drive

2011-12-30 Thread Christopher Chaltain
--system --reply-timeout=1000 --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User$uid org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetXSession string:ubuntu-2d Where $uid is your user ID number, mine is 1000. I've always installed Ubuntu 11.10 with Orca, so I've never had to do this myself. I'm just

Ubuntu 11.10 on a USB drive

2011-12-29 Thread Lenny
Hi, I used the Universal USB installer for Ubuntu 11.10. I haven't booted to it yet. Seems like the commands to boot to Orca were F5, then press #3, and press enter twice. Is this still the case, or did I get it wrong? Also, I know it has been asked recently, but I looked in my past messages

Re: Ubuntu 11.10 on a USB drive

2011-12-29 Thread Dave Hunt
If you're looking to boot Ubuntu 11.10 with the blindness profile, hit 'ctrl+s' when you hear the login bongo drums. Orca will start, after the music. If it does not, (can happen), run orca, manually, from the 'run' dialogue, accessible with 'alt+f2'. The live session, and the resulting

Re: Changing Desktop in Ubuntu 11.10

2011-12-12 Thread Penelope Stowe
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Hammer Attila hamm...@pickup.hu wrote: Hy Dave, Feel free you put with you worked final steps with a Wiki page, I am not have accessing yet any Wiki page. Of course if you suggest me a Wiki page with have public editing possibility, I welcome doing

Re: Changing Desktop in Ubuntu 11.10

2011-12-12 Thread Hammer Attila
to shortest the documentation. Hopefuly this detailed text documentation help more users if would like using GNOME3 fallback session with a better A11y support. Attila Switching from Unity Desktop to GNOME3 fallback session in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Installing the GNOME3 fallback session

Changing Desktop in Ubuntu 11.10

2011-12-11 Thread Dave Hunt
Hi, People, Hammer Atilla, of the blind Ubuntuers' community, offered me the solution, below, for changing the Ubuntu 11.10 desktop session, eyes,free. This seems to work. The 'dbus' command, offered by Luke, has not yet worked for me. Maybe Hammer's offering should be placed in a wiki

Re: Changing Desktop in Ubuntu 11.10

2011-12-11 Thread Hammer Attila
Hy Dave, Feel free you put with you worked final steps with a Wiki page, I am not have accessing yet any Wiki page. Of course if you suggest me a Wiki page with have public editing possibility, I welcome doing this. To any user possible doing a good working fallback session style

Ubuntu 11.10 Live CD vs. HD installation

2011-10-30 Thread Joseph Norton
Hi list: I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 to my hD. I seemed to have problems accessing certain things like the dialog to run a command (alt-f2) and some other things. However, when I installed to my HD, some things seemed to work better. Is this because I downloaded updates as I

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Released! - Accessibility Release Notes

2011-10-13 Thread Penelope Stowe
Hi All, For those of you who haven't already seen the official release announcement[0], Ubuntu 11.10 has been released! Some members of the accessibility team, led by Alan Bell, put together our own release announcement[1] with the notes on what's changed in accessibility for this release. I

Re: Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Released! - Accessibility Release Notes

2011-10-13 Thread Nolan Darilek
All, For those of you who haven't already seen the official release announcement[0], Ubuntu 11.10 has been released! Some members of the accessibility team, led by Alan Bell, put together our own release announcement[1] with the notes on what's changed in accessibility for this release. I hope

Ubuntu 11.10 Accessibility related questions

2011-10-07 Thread Mgr. Janusz Chmiel
Dear users and developers, Would some body try to answer me the following accessibility related question? In The future official Ubuntu 11.10 release, how will be solved The navigation in side The installed applications menu? In The Ubuntu 11.04 and in The earlyer releases, user could press ALT

Re: Ubuntu 11.10, Unity, and Compiz eZoom

2011-10-05 Thread Robert Cole
Hello, everyone. Sadly, I must report that this magnification issue persists in Ubuntu 11.10 as well. I tested this under a virtual installation of Ubuntu 11.10 with 3D Acceleration enabled. I am going to try to install gnome-shell on the VM and see if it works any better for me. I know

Re: Ubuntu 11.10, Unity, and Compiz eZoom

2011-10-05 Thread Robert Cole
Hello again. I was unsure as to whether or not I should create a new thread or follow-up on this one, so I decided to play it safe and follow-up. I installed gnome-shell in my virtual machine (Ubuntu 11.10). At the login screen, I was presented with session options for GNOME, Classic GNOME

Re: Ubuntu 11.10, Unity, and Compiz eZoom

2011-09-30 Thread Piñeiro
; they would stay zoomed out. Does anyone know if this has changed in Ubuntu 11.10, as I would really like to upgrade to it when ti is released. But I do not want to do the upgrade if it will not be accessible to me. Thanks for any input heer. It will be much appreciated. I didn't test

Re: Ubuntu 11.10, Unity, and Compiz eZoom

2011-09-30 Thread Piñeiro
On 09/30/2011 03:01 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: Getting the gnome desktop requires manually installing it. Unity 2D, as you can guess by the name, does not use Compiz,.though. Maco Good point, I didn't realize the issue of the manual installation. One option is start a shell, and install it

Ubuntu 11.10, Unity, and Compiz eZoom

2011-09-29 Thread Robert Cole
if this has changed in Ubuntu 11.10, as I would really like to upgrade to it when ti is released. But I do not want to do the upgrade if it will not be accessible to me. Thanks for any input heer. It will be much appreciated. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility

ubuntu 11.10

2011-09-26 Thread mattias
anyone using it sucessfully -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

starting orca in Ubuntu 11.10

2011-08-20 Thread Guy Schlosser
Hi all, I wrote earlier concerning getting orca started on an Oneiric install, upgraded from Natty. I had a sighted person look when I started Orca from terminal, and there was an error message that said cannot connect to accessibility bus...Is AT-SPI launcher running? That indeed tells me why

ubuntu 11.10

2011-08-02 Thread mattias
will qt accessibility work with 11.10 with orca? -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

ubuntu 11.10

2011-07-08 Thread mattias
anyone tryed the alpha? -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

ubuntu 11.10

2011-07-08 Thread mattias
i now played litle with ubunt 11.10 but seems inpossible to switc from unity to gnome or?? the command login no longer work -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: ubuntu 11.10

2011-07-08 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:46:22 +0200 mattias m...@mjw.se wrote: i now played litle with ubunt 11.10 but seems inpossible to switc from unity to gnome or?? the command login no longer work Correct. Ubuntu no longer uses gnome for a fallback session. Instead, Oneiric Ocelot (which becomes

Re: ubuntu 11.10

2011-07-08 Thread mattias
yes i reed something about gnome 3 fre 2011-07-08 klockan 14:55 -0600 skrev Charlie Kravetz: On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:46:22 +0200 mattias m...@mjw.se wrote: i now played litle with ubunt 11.10 but seems inpossible to switc from unity to gnome or?? the command login no longer work