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From: "Brent Harding" <bharding@doorpi.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: install help
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:42:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <005501c78821$f20c0200$224a5c46@brent827e59cc1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4630D120.27388.1EE991@localhost>

Oh, that will put Orca in the background so you stay in the terminal window.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <lists@barrettpianos.co.uk>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: install help


> Hi,
>
> Not sure that I get this.
>
> The instructions I have are to quit orca then restart it with the no
> setup argument.
>
> where does the andpersand come in to it?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On 25 Apr 2007 at 14:05, Brent Harding wrote:
>
>> You have to use the & sign to put Orca in the background. Then hit 
>> backspace
>> to hopefully get the beep that you're still in the terminal. Then you 
>> just
>> put in Ubiquity without the speech and speech will come up for install. 
>> This
>> odd way has to do with the fact that Orca can't communicate across 
>> accounts
>> so it needs to be running as root, as would the installer be.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Guy Schlosser" <guyster@buckeye-express.com>
>> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:09 AM
>> Subject: ot: install help
>>
>>
>> > Hi all, I know this is off-topic for this list in a way because it
>> > deals with orca, but then not so ot, because I want to get speakup
>> > running after install.  I am trying to install ubuntu 7.04, and was
>> > wondering if someone here can help.  An over-the-phone walk through
>> > would be awesome, but will settle for E-mail.  Here is my
>> > problem:  When I boot the live cd and enter a terminal, speech seems
>> > to be fine.  When I follow instructions I found on the orca wiki,
>> > that say to enter "sudo su, unload orca, then type "orca --no-setup
>> > --disable main-window", I get the welcome, then a message that says,
>> > "switching to focus tracking mode", then no speech.  If anyone can
>> > help, it would be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks much,
>> >
>> >
>> > Guy
>> >
>> >
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