It'll probably work better with gnome-terminal than xterm.On Sat, 10 Dec 2011, Eric Oyen wrote:
> I was using a full version of Ubuntu (11.10) to complete the install. it > seemed to work almost as well as vinux in most respects, but there were still > missing areas. the accessibility menu had stuff for seeing and hearing and a > few things for mouse and keyboard, but nothing for blindness (I had to run > orca manually). > > I found aptitude a little hard to navigate an xterm. some commands were not > being relayed into the term (they were being intercepted by the xterm frame). > I haven't tried out emacsspeak yet and am interested in using a CLI > environment as a management interface. > > with Ubuntu, the experience wasn't necessaryly all that bad, just a few areas > needing some attention. > > -eric > > > > On Dec 10, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Burt Henry wrote: > > > which vinux version? Synaptic is the easiest full featured package manager > > for GUI use, but for most things it is much easier and faster to install > > from the command line, a terminal or console using commands like > > sudo apt-get install packagename > > if you have a package down-loaded use > > sudo dpkg -i packagename > > there are about 1 dozen commands I use frequently between apt and dpkg and > > another tool you can download called gdebi > > sudo apt-get install gdebi > > aptitude is also good uses very similar commands to apt. GUI aptitude is > > something I've never tried/probably not accessibly nice as you are > > indicating. > > Synaptic takes a few sessions of getting used to, and takes a few seconds > > to wip orca in to saying things, or maybe lags a couple of seconds itself > > when using first letters to navigate in a list for instance. > > Gotta run, but CLI is a time saver for most things. > > > > > > On 12/10/2011 05:12 AM, Eric Oyen wrote: > >> I am trying to figure out which package manager is best using orca. so > >> far, my experience with "software center" has been lack luster at best. > >> and aptitude has some refresh problems that make using a screen reader a > >> real pain. > >> > >> anyone have a package manager that will allow listing of packages (by type > >> or relevance) without all the clumsiness? > >> > >> I just spent 5 hours finalizing an installation. the new gnome desktop > >> works ok, but it lacks some of the functionality that was in the older > >> gnome 2.x (such easier to find menus, etc.). > >> > >> I am wondering if the unity packages have something to do with this. > >> > >> also, I tried to get synaptic package manager to work and it quits on > >> starting. looks like something is missing there. > >> > >> -eric > >> > >> > > > > -- > > *the above was probably written by- > > Burt Henry > > (registered Linux-user 521,886) > > Contact Info: *email, GTalk&AIM- > > (burt1ib...@gmail.com) > > *Follow Me on Twitter- > > @BurtHenry > > *and I?m on Facebook* > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html> -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
