command or graphical update

2006-09-01 Thread MICHAEL WEAVER
When I get Ubuntu on my desktop, should I do my updates via the command line with apt-get or use that popup thing that comes up when I loggin? I know that when I use my laptop with my wireless network card, it comes up with an update thing. Should I switch that off if I am going to be using

Set up Orca with Alva Satellite Braile Display on Ubuntu 6.10 Live-CD

2006-09-01 Thread Petra Ritter
Hello, How I get my Alva Satellite 570 working with Orca on the Ubuntu 6.10 Daily Build on 29th August? If I answer the question about braille support with yes during the setup process the display don't get initialised after killing the Gnome Session with CTRL+Alt+backspace. I have connected the

Re: command or graphical update

2006-09-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, MICHAEL WEAVER wrote: When I get Ubuntu on my desktop, should I do my updates via the command line with apt-get or use that popup thing that comes up when I loggin? Well, most of the time I open gnome-terminal and use apt-get to add, remove, and update my Ubuntu system. However, if

audacity: was Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-09-01 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi all, Audacity offers some higher end features and is written in gtk, so it should be somewhat accessible if the authors have been thoughtful enough... have never tried it (for accessibility), though. I just tried audacity with orca and saddly the whole thing seems to show up as

Re: Orca very unfortunate with edgy live cd, can't get it working

2006-09-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, krishnakant Mane wrote: can some one give me the link for stable build? Well, if you want to get the latest stable build try ftp://cdimages.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/20060831 and if that doesn't work try ftp://cdimages.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/20060829 Hth.

Re: Software that works with Orca? - was Re: Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-09-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Krister Ekstrom wrote: When speaking of software that works with Orca, firstly, is the Firefox 2.0 included with Edgy or do i have to fetch it? Firefox 2.0 comes on the Edgy live cd. I've been told it will be shipping with the latest version of Firefox 2 when 6.10 is out for release in

Re: Software that works with Orca? - was Re: Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-09-01 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Thomas Ward wrote: An OCR program so i can read my mail and i could say bye bye to Windows. Well, there are a few OCR solutions. I haven't played around with them much but there is GOCR, clara, and there is a commercial OCR program for Linux as well based on Omnipages engine. As

Re: audacity: was Ubuntu on my desktop

2006-09-01 Thread Fco. Javier Dorado Martínez
Hi to all I know that Audacity is WXWidget toolkit based, and I think there's a WXGTK that possibly links these widgets with GTK. There is a stable version (1.2) and a unstable (1.3.x) version. I have found this topic into Audacity's wiki page. Audacity does not have any special support for