Re: archlinux gnome and orca package

2017-09-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Of course I don't, I was just making it clear what I did and didn't do. I have encounterd persons before who think speakup should run in a gnome terminal or other graphical terminal. kp On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Does Speakup even work in a Gnome Terminal

Re: archlinux gnome and orca package

2017-09-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Your problem is most likely with speech-dispatcher, not Orca, especially if you're also using gdm. Restart your speech-dispatcher. You may also need to restart Orca, i.e. from an Alt-F2 command prompt, type 'orca -r' . Linux for blind general discussion writes: > I replaced orca with orca-

Re: speechdispatcher-git

2017-09-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Why do you need gdm? Linux for blind general discussion writes: > It builds but doesn't run. Seems to be missing libdotconf.so.0 and the > libdotconf library doesn't appear to be in the archlinux repositories. I > uncommented lines in speechdispatcher-git PKGBUILD file

Re: archlinux gnome and orca package

2017-09-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
. Janina Linux for blind general discussion writes: > Yes, I mean that I never attempt to run speakup in a gnome terminal session > and I have separate users for text and graphical use. > -- Kelly Prescott > > > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussio

Re: archlinux gnome and orca package

2017-09-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Don't worry I'm having the same thing as well. I keep wondering if there if there is a service I need to enable for speech dispatcher or change something in config files. I might try ratpoison with orca. On 9/6/17, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > I

Re: archlinux gnome and orca package

2017-09-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
discussion wrote: Yes, I mean that I never attempt to run speakup in a gnome terminal session and I have separate users for text and graphical use. -- Kelly Prescott On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Sorry if this sounds like a weird question, but what do you mean

Re: Accessible music services on Linux?

2017-09-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
well with Firefox and Orca, as well as Chrome with Chromevox. Regards, Rynhardt On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 12:21 AM, Linux for blind general discussion < blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > I had zero success with Pandora. I'm currently trying out Spodify's > web player but it's diff

Re: Accessible music services on Linux?

2017-09-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I hadn't tried Google Play Music in Firefox for a rather long time, as the last time I loaded it into Firefox, it told me to download that deprecated Flash player plugin. I had been loading it into Chromium since it worked without it there. However, I can see now that they fixed that, and no

Re: speech-dispatcher 1.87

2017-09-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
discussion wrote: Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 10:45:55 From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: speech-dispatcher 1.87 I can't get speechd to start under systemd. The program errors out and the entries in journalctl -xe and systemctl

speech-dispatcher 1.87

2017-09-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I can't get speechd to start under systemd. The program errors out and the entries in journalctl -xe and systemctl status speechd are a waste of time to read since those provide no clue as to the reason for the error. Error code is 1. -- ___

Re: speechdispatcher-git

2017-09-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
because I tried lightdm first and that didn't work either. On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 07:44:51 From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>

Re: speechdispatcher-git

2017-09-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Curiosity for the most part. I wouldn't do auto-login on a machine. On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 18:59:25 From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@r

Re: speech-dispatcher 1.87

2017-09-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
discussion wrote: Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 19:00:24 From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> Subject: Re: speech-dispatcher 1.87 Try espeakup instead of speechd Linux for blind general discussion writes:

Re: speech-dispatcher 1.87

2017-09-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Try espeakup instead of speechd Linux for blind general discussion writes: > I can't get speechd to start under systemd. The program errors out and the > entries in journalctl -xe and systemctl status speechd are a waste of time > to read since those provide no clue as to t

Re: speechdispatcher-git

2017-09-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
include autologin on the console, or standard console login, followed by startx which can reliably start Orca and speech-dispatcher. Linux for blind general discussion writes: > because I tried lightdm first and that didn't work either. > > On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discuss

Re: speechdispatcher-git

2017-09-11 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
To be fully certain, you might try the command immediately after booting. You should run the command before issuing any other having absolutely anything to do with sound, i.e. not dispatching speech-dispatcher. Linux for blind general discussion writes: > The sound system isn't perfect. Whe

Re: pulseaudio error

2017-09-11 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I had a look at lsof man page and that is formidible! If I use this utility I will be doing it for my first time. I'll try lsof alsa and lsof pulseaudio and see what returns. On Mon, 11 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 04:52:13 From: Linux

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-11 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
. The cartridges need to be VFAT formatted. hth Janina Linux for blind general discussion writes: > Okay, I'v managed to find Perkins branded Digital Cartridges on > Amazon, but there doesn't seem to be any listings for the cables. Does > anyone know if the cartridges include the cable

Re: pulseaudio error

2017-09-11 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Try commands like: ps -ef pidof [some.command] Or, look at lsof output. Linux for blind general discussion writes: > xcb_connection_has_error() returned true > That's what google is telling me about that. One google entry noted a stail > pid but that doesn't appear to be the case here

Re: startx missing twm and xclock

2017-09-09 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
though commands I key in have no effect for some reason. I'm going to try running startx and then do control-alt-backspace and see if that will even shut xorg down. On Sat, 9 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 07:10:34 From: Linux for blind general

startx missing twm and xclock

2017-09-09 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Is xclock useable in screen reader accessibility context for xorg? What is the best choice for a wm for screen reader accessibility context? With startx, how is it run so startx goes into configuration mode? For this last question startx writes output to stderr and I haven't yet been able

Re: speechdispatcher-git

2017-09-11 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
the sound file has the error statement come back. On Mon, 11 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 04:50:37 From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-11 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
After figuring out how to get Amazon to show me everything being sold on the Amazon Marketplace by Perkins, I found that they offer a Belkin USB extension cable. Given the context, I'm assuming this particular cable either lacks the usual guard on the female end, has a guard thin enough to fit the

RE: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-11 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
: blinux-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Linux for blind general discussion Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 4:48 AM To: Linux for blind general discussion Cc: IAVIT Tech Talk List Subject: Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital

RE: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-11 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
-0535 http://www.loc.gov/nls/ The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS. -Original Message- From: blinux-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Linux for blind general discussion Sent: Monday

RE: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
] On Behalf Of Linux for blind general discussion Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2017 12:51 PM To: . fIAVIT Tech Talk List; Linux for blind general discussion Subject: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges. Okay, this isn't strictly Linux related and is more

speechdispatcher-git

2017-09-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
It builds but doesn't run. Seems to be missing libdotconf.so.0 and the libdotconf library doesn't appear to be in the archlinux repositories. I uncommented lines in speechdispatcher-git PKGBUILD file to enable speechdispatcher to run as a system-wide process and this may be necessary for

Re: archlinux gnome and orca package

2017-09-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
to work with webvisum. On Thu, 7 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 07:05:14 From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: archlinux gnome and orca package Don't worry I'm having the same thing a

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Ok, I know that there is a kind of cable that works with those digital cartridges.  I guess that the drives just have a regular file system on them.  The NLS digital book player is linux based and there should be no reason for the file system to be different. The files on there are .3gp

Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Okay, this isn't strictly Linux related and is more a hardware issue, but I'll be using a Linux PC in text-mode for anything in the solution the requires my PC. Okay, so I want to rip my collection of 4-track audio cassettes, but none of them are the standard format used for Music back in the

archlinux gnome and orca package

2017-09-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I have gnome and gnome-extra on the system and removed mate and mate-extra by now. I have managed to login with gnome and proved it by running gnome-terminal then using the backspace key a few times until I heard repeated beeps each time I hit the key. I ran speaker-test inside

Re: archlinux gnome and orca package

2017-09-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I replaced orca with orca-git and have no better performance. On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 15:32:34 From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: archlinux gnome and orca pack

Re: archlinux gnome and orca package

2017-09-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
and orca in the same session. This seems to work for me and I just don't have problems with it. On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: I have gnome and gnome-extra on the system and removed mate and mate-extra by now. I have managed to login with gnome and proved

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Thank you, Lloyd, for your informative reply. I have submitted a request to be mailed an application, and find myself hopeful that BARD will prove more accessible than commercial digital content services. As most of my old cassettes are newer than the time frame you mention, I'm hopeful I'll be

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Probably off topic, APH and NBP were selling blank NLS cartridges and a cable.  If you have that cable, you can copy any regular NLS cartridge and play it on an authorized player.  Or you could download it from the NLS web site. On 9/7/2017 12:51 PM, Linux for blind general discussion

Re: archlinux gnome and orca package

2017-09-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
e the gui? Thanks! Al On 9/6/2017 5:02 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: for what its worth, I use archLinux on all my systems, and I use orca with gnome and gdm. I have never had sound problems, and I use speakup as well. I also have never disabled pulse. I follow these simple rules:

Re: archlinux gnome and orca package

2017-09-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Yes, I mean that I never attempt to run speakup in a gnome terminal session and I have separate users for text and graphical use. -- Kelly Prescott On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Sorry if this sounds like a weird question, but what do you mean by, "

Accessible music services on Linux?

2017-09-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I had zero success with Pandora. I'm currently trying out Spodify's web player but it's difficult to use and has no perceiveable volume control. Either of these might have an accessible iPhone app but I want to listen with headphones on my computer while I code. What services do y'all use?

Re: Accessible music services on Linux?

2017-09-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I just have accrued a large MP3 collection and use `cmus` as my local client for that. -tim On September 6, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > I had zero success with Pandora. I'm currently trying out Spodify's > web player but it's difficult to use and has no perceiveabl

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
of the requirements queue. If I want a portable player, I have my Booksense and my smart phones. On 09/12/2017 10:08 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: I'm one of those who like the big buttons and the decent speaker of the NLS digital player, but you make a good point about the value of a device

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-13 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
APH used to sell a 4-track player/recorder. It also had the 2 speeds and analog VSC (variable speech control) as well. I also seem to recall that there was another one called the talkman. I actually owned the APH one. kp On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: I

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-13 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
? On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: I'm one of those who like the big buttons and the decent speaker of the NLS digital player, but you make a good point about the value of a device you can put in your pocket. Al On 09/11/2017 08:22 PM, Linux for blind general

Re: speechdispatcher-git

2017-09-13 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Because Xwindows needs to know where to send output. Without that, or similar statement, X won't start, and everything else that depends on it starting won't go either. Linux for blind general discussion writes: > I found it, When this line is commented out that XCB error returns true line >

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-13 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I still have one of those cassette decks, and compared to that, the cartridge player is downright tiny. That said, while I think it a shame there was never(at least to my knowledge) a walkman-style cassette player capable of playing single tracks or adjusting playback speed, those yellow bricks

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-13 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
cause of the color of his skin or his background or his religion ... People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love... For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." Nelson Mandela. On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-10 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Okay, I'v managed to find Perkins branded Digital Cartridges on Amazon, but there doesn't seem to be any listings for the cables. Does anyone know if the cartridges include the cables? Either way, I'm tempted to pick up a 16GB cartridge as a stop gap for playing the encrypted files if I can't

Re: speechdispatcher-git

2017-09-10 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
The sound system isn't perfect. When I used paplay to play an .oga file I got xcb_connection_has_error() returned true. On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 06:08:04 From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> To:

Re: speech-dispatcher 1.87

2017-09-10 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
console or the graphical terminal, assuming speech-dispatcher hasn't been launched yet. Heck, it should work with speech-dispatcher launched, but there are situations where that isn't the case. Thus my advice to test without speech-dispatcher. Linux for blind general discussion writes: > espea

Re: speechdispatcher-git

2017-09-10 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Linux for blind general discussion writes: > Curiosity for the most part. I wouldn't do auto-login on a machine. > For the most part that's probably the best approach. However, there are exceptions, and the current discussion illustrates one such. We're being asked to help someo

Re: startx missing twm and xclock

2017-09-10 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
For reference, here's my ~/.xinitrc. I don't claim all these directives are still necessary. Things change, but my startx is still working reliably for me on Arch Linux: export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN="gtk" export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge exec gnome-session Linux for blind general

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I'm one of those who like the big buttons and the decent speaker of the NLS digital player, but you make a good point about the value of a device you can put in your pocket. Al On 09/11/2017 08:22 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: My apologies if it sounded like I was complaining

RE: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
. -Original Message- From: blinux-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Linux for blind general discussion Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 8:41 PM To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I'll admit part of the problem is ignorance. Until reading the description for the cartridges Perkins is selling on Amazon, I didn't know any cartridge players other than the NLS player existed, and those descriptions only name drop two players I didn't know about and warns one doesn't support

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
you register it and it is emailed to you. Now, there are also other devices, but I am just giving some examples so you know that more is available. On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: I'll admit part of the problem is ignorance. Until reading the description

Re: Accessible music services on Linux?

2017-09-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Pandora is still about the easiest to use. I use an app called Pithos. The git version is probably best. It's a GTK application that gives near full access to your Pandora stations, and it should allow you to thumb up and down as well. ~Kyle ___

almost got gdm and mate working on archlinux

2017-09-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I got things up to login and did that and got the screen-saver after that. When I ran orca I had sighted assistance looking at the screen and orca did not come up talking. It did show all of its settings on screen though. As a result, I removed mate and mate-extra and orca and brltty and

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Yeah, this has gotten quite far from the original topic. Does anyone know if NLS, APH, Perkins, or any of the other organizations dealing in alternative formats have their own mailing lists or even just newsletters? My gmail is mewtamer if anyone wishes to forward me information on such off list.

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-11 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
by the cartridge. On 09/11/2017 09:15 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: The cartridges are typically formatted as FAT32. A cable doesn't come with a cartridge, and as you discovered, it's not quite standard. I think it will be a few extra weeks before a 16 GB cartridge becomes available

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

2017-09-11 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
My apologies if it sounded like I was complaining. I'm actually pleasantly surprised the players are Linux based as opposed to something custom or even Windows based, and honestly, sticking to a working model for a decade is actually kind of refreshing compared to the mainstream electronics

Re: speechdispatcher-git

2017-09-12 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
So, some step beyond that entry in your ~/.bashrc is mucking things up. Your assignment is to find out what's mucking things up, and to fix it. There's no way we can help you from this kind of general statement because it's far too short of specifics. Linux for blind general discussion writes

Re: editor in linux shell that does charactor count?

2017-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
On September 25, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > I can use wordperfect for word count. still I am writing something > that requires a character limit. Tim here. Any editor that lets you write your document contents through an external pipe should suffice. Ed,

Re: editor in linux shell that does charactor count?

2017-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Emacs can do this Devin Prater Assistive Technology Instructor in Training: JAWS certified. From: blinux-list-boun...@redhat.com <blinux-list-boun...@redhat.com> on behalf of Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> Sent: Monday,

this needs testing

2017-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
#!/usr/bin/env bash # file: fcl.sh - file with character limit script. echo -c "character limit for file:" read lim=$REPLY echo -c "file name to edit" read ef=$REPLY truncate --size=$lim $ef echo "remember only change lines in $ef to stay inside character limits." nano $ef wc -c $ef --

Re: editor in linux shell that does charactor count?

2017-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Tim following up to my previous email: also, if you run the DOS version of Word Perfect, it should also give you document statistics. -tim ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

Re: editor in linux shell that does charactor count?

2017-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Sorry, I just noticed that you were looking for a shell editor. Neither of the editors I mentioned qualify. Best regards, Paul -- [Notice not included in the above original message: The U.S. National Security Agency neither confirms nor denies that it intercepted this message.]

re: shell editor

2017-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
This isn't what was requested, but I'm pretty certain it will be useful nonetheless. The truncate command can create a file and make it a specific number of characters in size. Truncation happens from the end of the file if too large. So truncate 1 file.txt would make a file 1

re: this needs testing

2017-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I forgot three lines in earlier version. This one uses fold to force creation of 80 character lines making it easier to edit rather than just leaving a single line in the file and that happens before editing of file can happen. cut here. #!/usr/bin/env bash # file: fcl.sh - file with

Re: Questions about Mac, emacspeak and Braille

2017-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
assuming apple braille works on your computer with your braille display and you are talking only about work in terminal. On Sep 26, 2017, at 1:23 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: Hi, I know it's the Linux list but this is super important because I have

Questions about Mac, emacspeak and Braille

2017-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, I know it's the Linux list but this is super important because I have a job interview with Apple coming up. The latest emacs + emacspeak is running on my MacBook but the Braille doesn't work. The only way I can think to make it work is to set up brltty. I found this process way too hard when

Re: Questions about Mac, emacspeak and Braille

2017-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
ew. It's probably overkill but I thought it would be nice to have an environment that I feel comfortable coding in. Terminal with voiceover is still awkward. On 9/26/17, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > There are plenty of voices. Go into voiceover utili

Re: Questions about Mac, emacspeak and Braille

2017-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Okay, Amanda. You could email me at cahom...@gmail.com <mailto:cahom...@gmail.com> instead of onlist if you like. -- Cheryl On Sep 26, 2017, at 8:08 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: That's cool, and I'd definitely like some help with MacPo

Re: Questions about Mac, emacspeak and Braille

2017-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
That's cool, and I'd definitely like some help with MacPorts + brltty that since the only resource I can find on Google is that readme you posted a few years ago. I'd like my Mac a lot more with brltty and emacspeak. Thanks, Amanda On 9/26/17, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-l

Re: Two versions of Firefox, two different annoying bugs.

2017-09-24 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi Jeffery, On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 19:50:50 + Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > Okay, so I recently upgraded my main machine to Knoppix 8. Initially, > I was glad that a long standing bug that causes Orca to go silent > whenever I open a

re: shell editor

2017-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
No, fmt is not the same as fold. The fmt command in my testing failed to break lines but fold got the line breaks correct. Also, truncate is back along with the tr command to change those binary zeros to spaces. Easier approach. This one so far as I can tell now works. I'll put a loop in

Re: editor in linux shell that does charactor count?

2017-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > Huh, I was nearly certain that WP had a character-count > functionality, but pulling it up, I can't seem to find it. You've sparked a memory. I don't recall in the

about wp, was editor in linux shell that does charactor count?

2017-09-27 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: Huh, I was nearly certain that WP had a character-count functionality, but pulling it up, I can't seem to fi

Re: editor in linux shell that does charactor count?

2017-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I have not had a moment to check but I believe it is one of the 6.0 or 6.1 writing tools options. I have a sense that i used it before. Regardless, one of the other things might work. Thanks, Karen On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: On September 25, 2017, Linux

emacspeak-git went defective on archlinux

2017-10-01 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
So I got speechd-el up and working. Not necessarily perfectly, m;aybe more drivers are being loaded than are needed for only speech but it works well enough to be useable. -- ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com

Grub order.

2017-09-28 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi! Is there a command for getting the the order of the grub menu? I have debian as the first item as i just can press enter on that one when the grub beep comes. But i also have Vinux on my machine and i really don’t know where in the menu it is. Any help is appreciated. /A

Re: firefox and webvisum

2017-09-28 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
One thing I haven't yet tried is to first log into the webvisum site then log into 23andme.com/start/ and then run the webvisum menus in firefox to see if anything happens when I try taking a picture. On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 07:17

firefox and webvisum

2017-09-28 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I can access webvisum menus with control-f10 inside firefox and have keyed in credentials and finally found in the debugging menu take picture and on a particular web site with a captcha tried taking a picture and so far as I could tell nothing happened. There are login and log out menu

Re: Two versions of Firefox, two different annoying bugs.

2017-09-28 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 10:27:17 +0300 Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi Jeffery, > > On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 19:50:50 +0000 > Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Okay, so I recently upgr

Re: firefox and webvisum

2017-09-28 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Firefox is updating its architecture, and this is breaking a lot of extensions. F On 09/28/2017 08:55 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: One thing I haven't yet tried is to first log into the webvisum site then log into 23andme.com/start/ and then run the webvisum menus

autoconf errors

2017-10-03 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
trying to compile hamlib, a program to control radios, on x86/64 ubuntu 16. configure was not in the src; ran autoconf and got the following: configure.ac:35: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See

Re: editor in linux shell that does charactor count?

2017-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
On September 25, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > to the best of my knowledge, and I will check on this lol. word > count is all I can recall. Huh, I was nearly certain that WP had a character-count functionality, but pulling it up, I can't seem to find it. Granted, I'm

Re: shell editor

2017-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
-file bs=maxlength count=1 If the input-file is shorter than maxlength, output-file will be the same as input-file (not padded to maxlength). (warning: maxlength has a limit, but that limit is usually at least 100 Meg.) On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 18:07:24PM -0400, Linux for blind general discussion

Re: editor in linux shell that does charactor count?

2017-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi, > I can use wordperfect for word count. still I am writing something that > requires a character limit. > Ideas? The NoteCase Pro outliner has this feature. <h

Re: editor in linux shell that does charactor count?

2017-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, Thanks, I will see if either exist on our Linux shell as I do not run Linux so to speak, simply telnet to shell editions. Thanks again, Kare On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <bli

Re: editor in linux shell that does charactor count?

2017-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, Indeed just a text file, since I will be placing it elsewhere. will explore the wc option, or nano. thanks again, Karen On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: On September 25, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: I can use wordperfect for word count

editor in linux shell that does charactor count?

2017-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, I can use wordperfect for word count. still I am writing something that requires a character limit. Ideas? Thanks, Karen "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion ... People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate,

Re: editor in linux shell that does charactor count?

2017-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
to the best of my knowledge, and I will check on this lol. word count is all I can recall. However, a tiny bell is now ringing hinting at a place I have not checked, so we shall see. Karen On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Tim following up to my previous

Re: shell editor

2017-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Thanks, those binary zeros in that context could cause a real mess. On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 00:10:43 From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@r

Re: this needs testing

2017-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
fmt -80 infile > outfile Same thing, isn't it? On Sep 25, 2017, at 5:49 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: I forgot three lines in earlier version. This one uses fold to force creation of 80 character lines making it easier to edit rather than jus

Re: shell editor

2017-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
general discussion wrote: Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 07:01:52 From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> Subject: Re: shell editor Thanks, those binary zeros in that context could cause a real mess. On Tue,

Re: editor in linux shell that does charactor count?

2017-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
ed and edbrowse count characters when you write the file. or I just suspend the editor and type: wc -c filename ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

Re: Grub order.

2017-09-28 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Howdy, you can do this by parsing the /boot/grub/grub.cfg (what contains the order and entrys). this is done with awk for example (needs root): awk -F\' '/menuentry / {print $2}' /boot/grub/grub.cfg cheers chrys Zitat von Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>

How to use jackctl from command line?

2017-08-27 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hello, I am running arch linux on a vm. I have a radio automation package that can output to jack. I'm also using a headless interface. I am wondering how I can make jack ports and connections from the commandline because I don't have a way to install a gui. The automation system is called aras

I do not have jack_lsp, Jack_connect, and jack_disconnect

2017-08-28 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
As the subject says I do not have either programs on my system. Ware would I go to get a hold of them. I also don't have any man pages for them. I checked the aur and I even checked pacman and there not there either. -- Seth Hurst hurstseth...@gmail.com

Re: I do not have jack_lsp, Jack_connect, and jack_disconnect

2017-08-28 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
, Aug 28, 2017 at 03:12:22AM -0400, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > As the subject says I do not have either programs on my system. Ware > would I go to get a hold of them. I also don't have any man pages for > them. I checked the aur and I even checked pacman and there not there

Re: How to use jackctl from command line?

2017-08-28 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hello Joel, I was also wondering about the gui for that program. It said it could not compile because it did not have glib.h and I have no way to even know how to include that during the install process. On 8/28/17, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: >

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