Re: XpLike Ubuntu again

Hi, I have heard of a Windows-Like distro. I believe it used to be called Lindows, but because Microsoft got their panties in a bunch the name was changed to Linspire. I have never tried it, buut I believe it is Ubuntu based. If you do try it, I would be interested in knowing what

Re: ubuntu 10.10 and pidgin

Hi, There was a bug in atk that causes this problem. A patch has been made for it, but if you don't want to compile atk from source you can disable spell check in pidgen under tools, preferences, conversation tab. Just uncheck the spell check box. I am not sure if this will fix the not being able

Re: testing ubuntu 10.10

Hi, I haven't tried it myself, but just to make sure you aren't having the same problem as in previous versions, check under appearance, visual, and make sure it is set to none. the normal causes it to not be able to switch to the panels. HTH Storm -- Registered Linux user number 508465:

Re: SIP and Orca?

Hi, I'd like to know this too. Something more accessible than Skype and less flakey then Ekiga. Storm -- Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stormdragon2976 My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.us/ What color dragon are you?

Re: upgrading one version of ubuntu to another

Hi, You can do sudo update-manager -d from the terminal, but I have never had good results from doing it this way. Thee's another command you can use from the big terminal but I don't exactly remember the syntax. It was something like sudo do-release-upgrade. I thik that may be the way to go for

Donations to Ubuntu accessibility

Hi, Is there a site, or some way to donate to Ubuntu in such a way that the donated funds will go towards accessibility specifically? I would like to be able to donate to projects like Orca and speech-dispatcher, but as far as I know, right now that would meen donating to Oracle. This, I will

Re: Donations to Ubuntu accessibility

, which feeds into Ubuntu and the other distros. I think we can do that with Vinux based on Ubuntu. Bill On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Storm Dragon stormdragon2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there a site, or some way to donate to Ubuntu in such a way

Re: Donations to Ubuntu accessibility

would be willing to donate although I would like to be able to decide the amount each time. Who should set this up, and where would the money go exactly? Straight to Canonical, somewhere else? On Feb 11, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Storm Dragon wrote: That's not a bad idea, I have just recently

Re: Draft Willie for Ubuntu Accessibility

Hi, Yes, that would be quite awesome! Storm -- Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stormdragon2976 My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.us/ What color dragon are you? http://quizfarm.com/quizzes/new/alustriel07/what-color-dragon-would-you-be/ On Fri, 2010-02-05 at

Re: rhythm box

Hi, You can fix this by checking the crossfade option in preferences under the playback tab. Set the seconds for 3 or more. HTH Storm -- Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stormdragon2976 My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.us/ What color dragon are you?

speech-dispatcher and Festival

Hi, Has anyone gotten speech-dispatcher to be able to use festival? If so, how? Thanks Storm Follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stormdragon2976 My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.us/ For general Linux discussion: http://www.freelists.org/list/accessiblelinux What

espeakup in karmic

Hi, I installed espeakup from the repos. Before, when I just compiled it, I got it to autostart by adding a line to /etc/init.d/rc.local. After installing from the repos though, it starts automatically with out the modification to rc.local. The thing is, when I start it I would like it to use the

Re: Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 Koala positive feetback related toaccessibility and speech responsiveness

Hi, I was having the same problems with pulseaudio. The pauses every few wordes were quite interesting. Removing pulse solved sound problems for more than just orca though. I am still using speech-dispatcher with no problems. Did you remember to run spd-conf and set it to use alsa instead of

Re: Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 Koala positive feetback related toaccessibility and speech responsiveness

, Bill. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Storm Dragon stormdragon2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was having the same problems with pulseaudio. The pauses every few wordes were quite interesting. Removing pulse solved sound problems for more than just orca though

Re: Installing latest at-spi

This worked. Everything is now latest version. I have to leave at the moment, so I don't have time to update the wiki. I'll do it when I get back if no one else gets around to it in the mean time. thanks for the help Storm Check out the Storm Dragon blog: http

Installing latest at-spi

: GCONF_SCHEMAS_INSTALL does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL Check out the Storm Dragon blog: http://www.stormdragon.us/ -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Help with an Espeakup Error

Hi, Speakup and Espeakup were working perfectly until just recently. Now, when I try to start Espeakup, I get this message: Unable to open the softsynth device: No such file or directory Does anyone know what's wrong and how to fix it? Using Ubuntu 9.04. thanks Storm Check out the Storm Dragon

Frequent Crashes in Ubuntu 9.04

is to hold down the power button and do a hard reboot. Is anyone else having this problem? Is there anyone else experiencing this issue? If so, is there a way around it? thanks Storm Check out the Storm Dragon blog: http://www.stormdragon.us/ -- Ubuntu-accessibility

Here's a chance to raise awareness for Linux accessibility

There is a Youtube contest for adaptive technology. Winners will be awarded prises. For more info: http://atia.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3554 -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

espeakup in Jaunty

it, but was told it isn't an Orca bug, and espeak with the command line will speak as fast as expected. I plan on using any info I get to update my blog, so if you have the solution, please send me the info you would like posted as credits. Thanks Storm Check out the Storm Dragon blog

Re: espeakup in Jaunty

Hi, Is there a way to make it compile even though it has errors? It won't install with just make and sudo make install. It is the one in the contrib folder in the speakup package. Thanks Storm Check out the Storm Dragon blog: http://www.stormdragon.us/ On Fri, 2009-04

Something Strange

suddenlty stopping, it seems to happen a lot in terminal, and it hasn't failed once. So, is there something in the restricted package that could be conflicting with Orca? Thanks Storm Check out the Storm Dragon blog: http://www.stormdragon.us/ -- Ubuntu-accessibility

New orca-customizations.py file

status, date, time, and weather functionality to Orca Time or date can be pasted from the clipboard Adapted by Storm Dragon from the script posted at: http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-6a8c1c2511ba01d7397f68f754eec0d923d166f1 feel free to modify and/or redistribute this script

New orca-customizations.py File

in this script, time or date can be pasted from the clipboard Adapted by Storm Dragon from the script posted at: http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-6a8c1c2511ba01d7397f68f754eec0d923d166f1 feel free to modify and/or redistribute this script as you see fit. import orca.input_event

A Couple of Things in Intrepid

Hi, I have noticed a couple of odd things in Intrepid. If I have to press ctrl-alt-backspace to close my session: Orca starts speaking at the login screen. It says it is setting up and wants me to select a speech server, eSpeak and Festival are the two choices it gives me. I enter my login info

New orca-customizations.py File

functionality to Orca New in this script, time or date can be pasted from the clipboard Adapted by Storm Dragon from the script posted at: http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-6a8c1c2511ba01d7397f68f754eec0d923d166f1 feel free to modify and/or redistribute this script as you see fit

Orca Script Writing Tutorial

Hi, I have been attempting to learn Python. So far so good, I think anyway. Everything I have created works so far after a little tinkering anyway. I have found that the actual Orca code is a bit much to try and tackle for a beginner. Just finding the write files poses a bit of a challenge. So,

Re: Can orca read the weather in the top panel?

It can. You have to go into the time preferences and set your location. Once that is done, it will read the current temperature. It seems to read it every time I press alt-F1 to bring up the applications menu right before saying applications menu. You can also use ctrl-alt-tab to get to the

Upgrade to Intrepid Alpha6

Hi, I upgraded to Intrepid last night. The strange thing is, I ended up having to manually upgrade ubuntu-desktop and gnome-orca after everything was finished. I am not sure why they didn't upgrade along with everything else. So far, everything is working great except Orca seems to skip

Upgrading Espeak Version

Hi, I would like to upgrade eSpeak. I was wondering if there's anything I should know about before doing it...E.G Will it break speech in Orca? I did a search on Google and couldn't find anything about it but I thought I would ask just in case. Thanks Storm -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing

Speech-dispatcher won't start?

Hi, I installed speech-dispatcher and the python-speechd library. It doesn't show up in my Orca, and I get the error: client: speech-dispatcher failed to start: connection refused I have had this problem on 2 laptops both running Hardy. I have a desktop running Gutsy and it works just fine. I did