ubuntu 2012.04 issues

2012-04-02 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, Several days ago I've installed ubuntu 2012.04 to my usb drive for testing. I will go throught some issues I'm having. If you like you can take this as a small review. I'm sorry I won't go to much detail while talking about stuff which already works verry well. That's the nature of many

Re: ubuntu 2012.04 issues

2012-04-02 Thread Peter Vágner
gnome settings center. Sounds like your video card, or memory issues might be causing the problem. I installed the 03/27 build and never had those problems. -Original Message- From: ubuntu-accessibility-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-accessibility-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of

Re: Orca running twice

2012-04-02 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, I was able to get more instances of orca running by pressing and holding down ctrl+s shortcut key while booting live cd after hearing the drums sound. Might this be related? Greetings Peter Dňa 2.4.2012, o 15:41, Tom Masterson napísal: > I more or less have the Ubuntu desktop coming

Re: My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04?

2012-04-02 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, If you are afraid the image is not properly placed on to an USB drive you might try just dd the iso file on to the proper device while it's unmounted. I did it using this method and it worked. If you think the system is actually booting maybe the sound is muted on startup. You can try swit

Re: My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04?

2012-04-02 Thread Peter Vágner
my stuff be there when > I login? I've already backed up the files of interest to another machine on > my home network. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Dave > > > > > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Peter Vágner wrote: > >> Hello, >> If you are afrai

Re: My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04?

2012-04-03 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, On 2.4.2012 19:13, Krishnakant Mane wrote: I hear the drums sound. As I mentioned before, I wait for about 3 or 4 minutes and select try Ubuntu by just pressing tab and then enter. I am instead pressing ctrl+s to start orca on this screen and then alt+tabbing to the installer window whe

Re: My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04?

2012-04-03 Thread Peter Vágner
m] On Behalf Of Peter Vágner Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 4:39 AM To: Krishnakant Mane Cc: Ubuntu Accessibility Subject: Re: My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04? Hello, On 2.4.2012 19:13, Krishnakant Mane wrote: I hear the drums sound. As I mentioned before, I wait for about 3 or 4 minutes and selec

Re: My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04? Thanks!

2012-04-03 Thread Peter Vágner
'alt-tab' > stopped, as if I'd somehow switched to 3d session. I opened a Nautilus > window at this point; the delay between my key presses and Orca speaking made > it useless. > > HTH, > > > > Dave > > > > > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2012,

Re: Be carefuly, don't install latest python-pyatspi2 related update, because Orca unable to import pyatspi module after installation

2012-04-04 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, Is the apr 4 daily live cd affected or it only happens after the package update? Greetings Peter Dňa 4.4.2012, o 14:28, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza napísal: > Hi attila, thanks for the steps. I'll give a try. > Fortunately I installed speakup! > Thanks again. > > On 04/04/2012 09:18 A

Re: Netbook doesn't like latest Unuty-2d or 3d

2012-04-04 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, Maybe i am speculating too much but this appears to me like the issue i have tried to report in my long message on mondayslow system responses, broken alt+tab key navigation and possibly other keyboard issues. Greetings Peter Dňa 4.4.2012, o 20:46, Dave Hunt napísal: > Hi, > > Here'

Re: I reported a caret navigation related issue with checkbox application

2012-04-05 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, Isn't there a hope for a more universal fix to this? I know empathy and pidgin and possibly other apps also feature read-only edit boxes. If this solution is accepted then it has to be done for all the application. Shouldn't there be a feature in gtk+ it-self or other library where it's

Re: Some inaccessible applications related bug reports in Ubuntu 12.04

2012-04-08 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, TThese are verry good reports, most likelly I will add affects me too. However while I was browsing various settings I have found under keyboard layout quite a lot of options and it is possible to define a shortcut key for switching layouts. Might this be what you are looking for? On

Re: booting to ubuntu live cd in vmware and starting orca?

2012-04-08 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, For specific stuff regarding ubuntu 2011.10 you migh like to read or reread the following article aat ubuntu accessibility team blog: http://ubuntuaccessibility.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/oneiric-ocelot/ In ubuntu 12.04 you just bootfrom the cd or from the downloaded image I dont know enou

instant messaging

2012-04-09 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, I now have ubuntu 12.04 installed on the usb drive and I am working with it occassionally at home to get me familiarize with stuff etc. What I have found a bit problematic is using empathy. Please don't see thiss as a criticism, I would ust like to see if anybody faces the same issues an

Re: can't read text in widgets like password and rename entry field

2012-04-11 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, On 11.4.2012 9:05, krishnakant Mane wrote: Further more I notice a very strange problem, would be happy if some one could confirm. Press alt + enter on a folder or file to see its properties. Orca will read it using flat review all right. But the moment I go away either by pressing esca

Re: how to get more applications in the launchbar?

2012-05-15 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, Is there a way for us using orca to rearrange icons on the launch bar? Because apps added using this method are ussually added to the bottom. if the only option available for now is to delete all icons and then add them in the order I would like to have then that's just a time consuming

pulseaudio device chooser

2012-07-15 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, With ubuntu 10.04 I was using an app pulseaudio device chooser what allowed me to have the following settings. I was using sb audigy soundcard as a main systems device. Using pulseaudio device chooser I was able to transfer the speech-dispatcher output to the built-in soundcard. The resu

Re: pulseaudio device chooser

2012-07-16 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, On 17.07.2012 01:02, Luke Yelavich wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 04:15:03PM EST, Peter Vágner wrote: It appears package padevchooser is not available for ubuntu 12.04. Use pavucontrol, padevchooser has long since been deprecated. Well are you sure pavucontrol can do that for me

virtualbox

2012-09-19 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, I am running Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit as the main OS. I have installed virtual box using software centre and checked all the additions during setup e.g. 32 bit kernel support and network ethernet driver. At the end of a virtualbox install I have just rebooted the machine to make sure everythi

deadbeef music player

2012-10-17 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, This music player is verry powerfull, lightweight supports a lot of audio formats, can work with multiple playlists. For people coming from Windows to Linux it may be close to what Foobar 2000 is under Windows. Its dialogs are perfectly accessible it features gtk2 user interface however

installing 2012.10

2012-10-31 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, Today My PC got hard power off due to power outage. Unfortunatelly it is now broken and displays low resolution mode at the beginning. I have not enough expertise to fix it my-self fsck did not help. I am therefore speculating. Is there a more recent distro preferrably running gnome 3.6

Re: installing 2012.10

2012-10-31 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, does orca reliably start and work on login screen in 12.10? Once the system is installed using the built-in installer it installs unity I assume. I have never tried to install something else than the default. Can I somehow configure autologin so it will use gnome instead of unity? I kno

Re: installing 2012.10

2012-10-31 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, Good news I was able to fix my 12.04 installed system. Oh what a shame. That was a verry verry stupid mistake. I have got no free space left on the system partition so the system was unable to even create lightdm session and thus it was displaying an error. So what I did is that I have mov

Re: Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-22 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, I understand mithtv is full solution but writing qt accessibility support is going to be damn complicated. It is a huge codebase and no one has ever considered accessibility before. I would be happy if something like this existed but I think it is not a project for a few open-source deve

Re: Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-23 Thread Peter Vágner
, faginbagin wrote: On 12/22/2012 05:39 PM, Peter Vágner wrote: Hello, I understand mithtv is full solution but writing qt accessibility support is going to be damn complicated. It is a huge codebase and no one has ever considered accessibility before. I would be happy if something like this existed

Re: Here it is...Ubuntu Phone

2013-01-05 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello Nolan, The first article you have linked to has pings and comments disabled. Maybe it is why your comment was rejected. I have looked up a secretary email at the contact page of marks blog and send my comment there in case it will be looked into. Jonos article sounds verry exciting but r

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

2013-05-09 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, Most likelly you have been working with kobaspeech voices as this is the way to get the realspeak voices as sapi5. They are however implemented slightly differently than most other voices e.g. acapella. There was also an issue with loading kobaspeech voices in NVDA. I will try to look up

Re: Orca in Xfce?

2013-08-19 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, I am also using xfce on one of my machines and I have got a lot of apps working in there. I am using Arch linux and I have tried to write the instructions on how to get xfce4 working in arch. Perhaps you will be able to get the idea from my write up and you will adjust it to ubuntu. So l

Re: Orca in Xfce?

2013-08-19 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, I recommend xfce 4.10 as there were some accessibility related fixes during its development cycle. When it comes to orca I know it is working well with orca 3.6 and also 3.8. I haven't tested xfce with other versions of orca. However I guess even orca 3.4 might work because there is nothi

Re: Libreoffice in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-09-11 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, I think it is a good idea to go to the tools -> settings... then inside the accessibility treeview branch there is a checkbox saying something like enable cursor inside read only documents. This makes help documents to be readable with orca but still I am unable to figure out how I can m

Re: Libreoffice in Ubuntu 12.04

2013-09-11 Thread Peter Vágner
the same curiosity for long time. I would like to read the documentation, specially for spreadsheet. happy hacking. Krishnakant. On 09/11/2013 08:00 PM, Peter Vágner wrote: Hello, I think it is a good idea to go to the tools -> settings... then inside the accessibility treeview branch there i

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 and Magnification

2014-08-26 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, Ubuntu 14.04 is already released however I am afraid the magnifier is not there by default at least I seem to be unable to find it. In older versions there was a package compizconfig-settings-manager which was supposed to add kind of magnification to unity however it can no longer be ins

Re: Budgie desktop accessibility

2017-01-10 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, As I've just discovered budgie desktop uses GNOME technologies such as GObject, GTK, GIO, gnome-bluetooth, pulseaudio and more. It would be nice to get an idea whether accessibility is on their road map given they are in a phase trying to clean and modularize the component dependenc

Re: is s peech possible in in Kodi 17.0?

2017-02-13 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, Yes, this is possible but there is an additional step needed to enable the addon since Kodi 17. Assumed you have done all that Kyle has recommended i.e. created the folder structure ~/.kodi/addons and unzipped service.xbmc.tts in there you also need to do the following. - Start kodi an

Re: [orca-list] Problems with orca and updated Ubuntu 16.04

2018-01-26 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, Can you access that PC remotely to trouble shoot? Does other audio such as system bell play? Can you blindly try running espeak hello spd-say hello or similar to discover if speech is working fine? If all this appears to be working are you sure orca is running? Greetings Peter 2018-01-2

Re: [orca-list] Problems with orca and updated Ubuntu 16.04

2018-01-27 Thread Peter Vágner
system and a reboot fixed it. > > Tom > > > On Fri, 26 Jan 2018, Peter Vágner wrote: > > Hello, >> >> Can you access that PC remotely to trouble shoot? Does other audio such >> as system bell play? Can you blindly try running >> espeak hello >> spd-sa

Re: OT soundconverter doesn't work after Ubuntu reinstall

2018-04-06 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, This is most likelly an ubuntu packaging issue. See here for the bugreport including some tips on what to install to make it work: https://bugs.launchpad.net/soundconverter/+bug/1710728 Greetings Peter 2018-04-06 10:46 GMT+02:00 Pavel Vlček : > Hi all, > > I reinstalled Ubuntu Mate 18.

Re: [orca-list] Warning, critical error with text sellection

2020-08-16 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, Arch linux, GTK 3.24.22, gedit 3.36.2, atk 2.36.0, at-spi2-core 2.36.0, at-spi2-atk 2.34.2, orca master c5866be92 and I can't reproduce it too. Greetings Peter Dňa 16. 8. 2020 o 12:12 Joanmarie Diggs napísal(a): I just tried this using Orca master + Gedit 3.36.2 and Pluma 1.24 in