Hello, I'm a music teacher. I'm visually impaired, but don't need to use assistive technologies, I prefer to utilize various system settings such as varying font sizes, altering color schemes, or using light-weight magnifiers, one of which is built directly into X server - ability to have smaller screen resolution than desktop size. But this doesn't seem to work in 8.10, Alt+grey+ and Alt+gray- don't respond as expected.
But that's not why I write this post. Music software in general is very demanding to ... sight, a very strange thing considering the result is meant to be perceived by ear. Windows music creation software is very expensive, and after working with it for several hours my eyes hurt badly from constant chasing of mouse pointer. I watch Linux since its bearth in 1991 and from time to time I have tried various distros. Ubuntu Studio is very attractive to me because 1. as a free software, I can use it anywhere not caring about software activation or any other license matters, and 2. I hope I can eventually get a music creation tool which would suit my needs - by providing feedback to developers. But currently, I feel tossed away by Ubuntu Studio - if I run apps like MusE or Rosegarden, they complain JACK is not found. As a Windows user, I have no ide what's JACK for, and searching the Net yields some pages describing JACK from developer's point of view, no end-user, non-technical howto exists AFAIK. I think if I get specialized distro like Ubuntu Studio, no such dialogs should appear after install, this should be configured during install. User docs of Ubuntu Studio are heavily outdated and incomplete, an article about audio apps has just the heading saying JACK and JACK apps, but nothing is written about this subject. I wanted to look into forums, but after clicking a linke labeled Genearl help, no "studio" string is found on that page. Yes, there is Multimedia production forum, but there should be specific Ubuntu Studio forum with "studio" in its name, where distro-specific issues should be discussed. Nevertheless, I'm not going to give up, since I'd like to create music without my eyes hurting :-) Best Regards. Tomas Valusek -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
