Re: Screen reader advice for a Linux sysadmin

2018-03-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, Bryan: A few comments ... I've not done it myself, but I understand you can indeed use VirtualBox on a Mac as long as you do all the setup from the terminal. GUI installation and configuration is apparently unavailable, but everything one needs to do to get an accessible talking vm can be acc

Re: Screen reader advice for a Linux sysadmin

2018-03-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Ah, precisely my point. There's no numpad on an Airbook. This isn't a problem for Speakup in Linux where you simply use CapsLock as a modifier. But that's a doing anything robust with CapsLock is a long standing issue with Macintosh. Linux for blind general discussion writes: > > In voiceovr conf

Linux Virtual Machine

2018-03-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hello Janina, Thanks for this reply with all your feedback. I guess I did not really pose the question correctly. I have used VMware Fusion, Virtualbox, and Parallels on my Mac. The set up was not the question I had. Someone said they use a virtual Machine running Linux on their Mac because Mac

Re: Screen reader advice for a Linux sysadmin

2018-03-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Ahh. But you can change they Speakup key to be something other than the CapsLock key. I modified my keymap to use the Alt key instead of Caps Lock. Here's how I modified mine. su - root cat /speakup/keymap > keymap.new vi keymap.new Within vi I changed 58, 128, 128, 0, 0, 0, 0, to 56, 128, 128,