Re: getting to the desktop

2021-07-09 Thread Kyle
Under most circumstances, alt+control+d should hide all windows and focus the desktop. I believe it used to be defined as "Show the desktop" in the system's keyboard shortcuts, but it works here even though I no longer see the shortcut definition. ~Kyle -- Ubuntu-accessibili

Re: How to add x86 libraries?

2020-08-23 Thread Kyle
are available. Hope it helps. ~Kyle -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: evolution

2020-06-09 Thread Kyle
Interesting. I haven't noticed any crashing within the past month. I only notice the issue I reported, which has been pretty much the same for more than 10 years actually. It definitely did crash some time back, but that seems to have been fixed recently. ~Kyle -- Ubuntu-accessibility

Re: evolution

2020-06-08 Thread Kyle
iframes. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/908 for my bug report and explanations of what is happening. ~Kyle -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: using dd writing iso file to usb drive

2020-05-09 Thread Kyle
your best option, as it allows you to choose exactly the file and device you want. ~Kyle -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: live image of current system

2019-08-08 Thread Kyle
You should have access to Clonezilla. I believe that will do what you need, though I have little experience with it. I believe it runs from a terminal. ~Kyle -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Xenial Mate [20170306] built by PINE64

2019-04-03 Thread Kyle
I can't be sure that it has Orca on the image by default, but I know that it can be installed, and that it will in fact work. You may need to get ssh working, but if it works out of the box, you can prepare your board for speech from the shell using aptitude as usual. Please do let me know if

Re: Accessible Coconut Linux

2018-08-20 Thread Kyle
I've heard of it. In fact, it's been mentioned fairly recently on a couple of other lists. I can't remember if it's based on Debian or an Ubuntu LTS. If memory serves and the search results I'm seeing are correct, I believe a company called Cocofrix develops it. I found them at cocofrix.com.

Re: Writing to disk

2018-05-23 Thread Kyle
You may need the brasero application. I think that may give you the option you need in the file manager. If not, you should have no trouble opening Brasero and writing from the iso directly to your DVD, which would be listed as a blank disk. Imetumwa kutoka simu yangu --

Re: ot gnac replacement

2018-04-03 Thread Kyle
Isn't handbrake accessible? Arista Transcoder may also work. I believe both use gtk, and I did make them both work at one time, though I usually just use ffmpeg now. Imetumwa kutoka samaki yangu -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Problem with thunderbird in ububuntu 17.04.

2017-05-11 Thread Kyle
It doesn't sound like your problem is with Thunderbird. I think Gmail is the culprit here. It's possible it doesn't fully recognize you and thinks you're trying to login from an unknown device. You will need to verify that you are you by other means before Google will unblock your access to

Re: Sonar GNU Linux merges with Vinux

2017-03-15 Thread Kyle
Yes. Vinux will have one more release based on Ubuntu 16.04. Sent from the bridge -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Kodi

2016-11-10 Thread Kyle
Kodi doesn't work with any OS screen reader. You need the kodi screen reader addon, which you will be able to unzip inside Kodi's addons directory before you start it for the first time. Open up a terminal and execute the following commands before you start Kodi, being sure that you are

Re: arm devices

2016-10-19 Thread Kyle
I'm not sure how that works, although Ubuntu probably packages more kernels from supported devices, so that may make the difference. Ubuntu packages different kernel packages from Debian and also patches its own software as well, so it's not surprising that they are able to support more

Re: introduction

2016-03-18 Thread Kyle
The main problem with Thunderbird is that it seems to freeze when your ~/.thunderbird directory gets too large. The best way to resolve this issue is to uncheck "store messages on this computer" from your account settings for each account. Hope this helps. Sent from my ordinary world --

Re: how can I get a beep sound when GRUB appears

2015-09-17 Thread Kyle
One thing you may possibly need to do once you uncomment that line is to run sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg If this still produces no beep, then it's likely that your device is incapable of beeping before the kernel's sound driver is loaded, in which case, you will hear nothing from

Re: Very bad news for meI do not know how many others/UbuntuOne cloud storage service to be shutdown

2014-04-08 Thread Kyle
multiple competitors to step up and offer something good based on the Ubuntu One code. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle? Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - The Amazing Evie -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: dreams and schemes

2013-11-03 Thread Kyle
could tell you nothing about the state of proprietary operating systems and screen readers today, and don't want to have to learn/relearn such crap. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle? Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - The Amazing Evie -- Ubuntu-accessibility

free educational materials (was Re: What happened with Firefox 25?)

2013-11-02 Thread Kyle
of a degree or certificate program at a university. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle? Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - The Amazing Evie -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu

Re: What happened with Firefox 25?

2013-11-01 Thread Kyle
, but I'm not sure how it's modified. Both Evince and Firefox are jumbling it a bit, as are pdftotext and pdftohtml. I really do like the concept though, and hope either their text or our reading tools will improve soon. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle? Out of This World

Re: Anyway possible using Svox Classic TTS engine with Ubuntu?

2013-05-10 Thread Kyle
be to keep trying and trying to make Voxin or any other packaged version of this speech synthesizer run just a little longer. ~Kyle http:/kyle.tk/ -- Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle? Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - The Amazing Evie -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Anyway possible using Svox Classic TTS engine with Ubuntu?

2013-05-07 Thread Kyle
-dispatcher will support it. The only other option for many different languages is eSpeak, but many of its languages need native speakers to fix them up so they sound better. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle? Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - The Amazing Evie

Re: how good will be the gnome shell edition of Ubuntu 13.04?

2013-04-24 Thread Kyle
a productivity standpoint. I believe this is an opinion based on personal preference, but I seem to be able to navigate faster and do more in less time with gnome-shell than I could with Unity, and 3.8 has made a major improvement in that regard. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- Kyle? ... She calls her cake

Re: is Ubuntu 13.04 going to be any better?

2013-04-21 Thread Kyle
I'm just a little concerned that the GNOME edition is still running GNOME 3.6 + Orca 3.8, whereas Ubuntu 13.04 should be running GNOME 3.8 in its entirety. But maybe they will upgrade the GNOME edition to 3.8 after the Ubuntu release is finalized. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- Kyle? ... She calls her

Re: Here it is...Ubuntu Phone

2013-01-07 Thread Kyle
of things, so that you can file more informed bug reports based on the newest, dare I say shiniest, technology. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle? Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - The Amazing Evie -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Here it is...Ubuntu Phone

2013-01-07 Thread Kyle
, because we will be recognizing the fact that developers are in fact human beings, and developers and the companies who employ them will recognize that we are also human beings. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle? Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - The Amazing Evie

Re: installing 2012.10

2012-10-31 Thread Kyle
. You could also try one of the Sonar images at http://sonar-project.org/ which is based on Ubuntu 12.04 and then update it to run GNOME 3.6. Hope this helps. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: installing 2012.10

2012-10-31 Thread Kyle
Sonar is based on Ubuntu 12.04, so the update manager should get you the latest packages, while still allowing you to keep Sonar's modifications, and therefore should update to GNOME 3.6. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: installing 2012.10

2012-10-31 Thread Kyle
with or without gnome-shell, depending on the image you download, and configure it to run by default. I'm not 100% sure that Orca speaks the login screen on Sonar, but it should as far as I know. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: Google+ readability

2012-04-12 Thread Kyle
Yes, the off-list message was a mistake. I should have looked back at the To: box to be sure it was going to the list, as some lists don't seem to handle replies correctly. Thanks for pointing this out. ~Kyle -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: Google+ readability

2012-04-12 Thread Kyle
everywhere, and keep up the great work toward making it work on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. ~Kyle -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Show-Stopper: Metacity 'save' and 'open' dialogues in Ubuntu 11.04 broken when Orca running!

2011-05-25 Thread Kyle
, that in GNOME3, I seem to have to kill Python the first time I open or save a file using the Metacity file chooser in order to get Orca talking again, which does seem to be a new problem. Nautilus also hangs on my home directory, but usually for only about 5 seconds. ~Kyle -- Ubuntu

Re: embedded text to speech converter

2011-04-02 Thread Kyle
personal recommendation is to use speech-dispatcher, since it provides an abstraction layer for a number of free and proprietary speech synthesizers. ~Kyle -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: embedded text to speech converter

2011-04-02 Thread Kyle
. ~Kyle -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: embedded text to speech converter

2011-04-02 Thread Kyle
option for low-memory systems, but the speech-dispatcher module for it only works with the worst sounding voice. There are 3 or 4 other better voices that can be selected from the command line, but they don't work with speech-dispatcher's flite module for some reason. ~Kyle -- Ubuntu

Re: Maverick and speech-dispatcher?

2010-10-28 Thread Kyle
on the problem if you can find an error message or something else I may have overlooked. ~Kyle -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: ubuntu and talks

2010-09-16 Thread Kyle
to it over bluetooth on Ubuntu all the time, so it should work for Talks on your N82 as well. ~Kyle -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: I have a question about thunderbird

2010-03-12 Thread Kyle
If you are using Thunderbird 3.0 and open a message, you can press control-W to get back to the list. Each message opens in its own tab, and control-W closes the tab. ~Kyle -- Jesus you're my life. I live only to serve You Each and every day. --Kyle -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list

Re: ubuntu 9.10 vm help

2009-12-12 Thread Kyle
start the VM, you should be able to enter the key sequence and everything should work as advertised. Kyle -- Jesus you're my life. I live only to serve You Each and every day. --Kyle -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: pulseaudio problems again

2009-08-17 Thread Kyle
pulseaudio, even though I really don't need it because I have a SoundBlaster Live which does hardware mixing. Good luck, Kyle -- Jesus you're my life. I live only to serve You Each and every day. --Kyle -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https