hi I think the thunderbird problems are thunderbird bugs. At least, if you're talking about the ridiculous lag when typing messages, that's a thunderbird thing from what I've been able to find out. There's also a lag when going through the list of messages if you have over a certain amount, not exactly sure what that amount is. Gnome will probably run on that machine, but it might not run well. Mate would be much much better for a computer with only a gig of ram, but even with mate you'll have to be careful not to run too many resource intensive apps, like libreoffice, at once. Thanks Kendell Clark
Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have vinux5 installed which runs unity and found out thunderbird and > unity don't like each other very much. I was able to enter my gmail > credentials and get to the inbox using I think it was shift-f10 inside > of thunderbird but haven't got email down for reading yet. I may have > to install gnome but with only a gig of ram on my athelon X86_64 gnome > will probably crash the computer. Inside mate to get to a terminal > you want to run mate-terminal since that runs faster than > gnome-terminal. The mate-terminal also works under unity. Firefox > works pretty well from my limited use of it so far. The chromium app > isn't accessible for orca at all and isn't worth messing with for now > at least. Emacs is available and probably very accessible as a work > environment which should help cover any of libreoffice's > shortcomings. Thunderbird is easily crashed over here, but then again > I'm a touch typist and have little tollerance for keyboard latency > unless I get some kind of audio indication that something I've done is > being worked. Some clicks from the speaker would help in this respect > but I don't know that any form of Linux offers this feature that can > be enabled yet. > More than that I don't yet know but will find out as I hack through > this system. > > > On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Daniel Crone wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:44:28 >> From: Daniel Crone <quirky.wiz...@gmx.com> >> To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com >> Subject: introduction >> >> Hello one and all. >> My name is Daniel, and I have used different operating systems >> through the years. >> I have decided to give ubuntu mate a try. >> I am very new to linux. >> Before starting, I welcome anyone?s words of wisdom for a totally >> blind user, new to linux. >> I liked the idea of sonar, but I have tried to install several times, >> and the installer never finished. >> But that could be due to my machine?s being so old and slow. >> From the dvd, sonar worked very well. >> I hope ubuntu will be equally good. >> So, hats off to all, those on the sonar team, and to all on the >> ubuntu team. >> I would really like for all linux accessibility people to benefit >> each other. >> -- >> Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list >> Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
