Speech is faster and easier in a console than on an accessible terminal inside a Desktop Environment like MATE. Also for older computers, it's much faster because you aren't running a visual system like Xorg to produce a graphical environment.
If you can use a text email program and other text based programs that work in console, for many people there's no coming back to the bloat of X windows graphical environment. I use ttytter for Twitter but unfortunately there's no Facebook text mode application. But I can live without you Facebook. Regards, David On Sun, Dec 25, 2022, 12:18 K0LNY_Glenn <[email protected]> wrote: > I've only used a terminal, I'm unfamiliar with the benefits of one or more > consoles over terminal windows. > Glenn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frank Carmickle" <[email protected]> > To: "Debian Accessibility Team" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2022 11:11 AM > Subject: Re: tty13-24 > > > > > On Dec 21, 2022, at 6:42 AM, Geoff Shang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 20 Dec 2022, Frank Carmickle wrote: > > > >> Interestingly, my sid system hasn't changed from the old behavior of > >> using right alt for directly accessing tty13-tty24. My newly installed > >> bullseye has me using left alt and shift to get there. Anyone know how > to > >> revert to old behavior? > > > > You need to put the following in /etc/default/keyboard: > > > > XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch" > > > > this has not changed since previous releases and I've had to add it > there > > to them too. > > > > You can run > > > > setupcon -k > > Wow! Thank you. > > Does anyone know if this made it in to any debian changelog? > > Thanks much, > --FC > > > > > to implement the change. > > > > Interestingly, the left alt key with shift still works after this change. > > > > HTH, > > geoff. > > > >
