From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org ([63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I7fT1-00087U-00 for ; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:42:59 -0400 Received: (qmail 13639 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Jul 2007 15:42:28 -0700 Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:42:28 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp Message-ID: <20070708224228.GE6601@localhost.localdomain> References: <1183919406.3596.63.camel@layla.Mshome> <002101c7c190$b2af1ae0$ccca6352@Parham> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002101c7c190$b2af1ae0$ccca6352@Parham> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:43:03 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The reason it said that, is because firefox is a gui application, and you were apparently trying to run it in the text console. I stand to be corrected, but since grml is a debian-based system, the following should work: To see a list of installed packages, type: aptitude search '~i' |more , and use the spacebar to move to the next screen. If you want to see a description for each package in the list, type: aptitude show packagename Besides that, you'll want to learn about gnu/linux. The linux documentation project http://www.linuxdoc.org is a good place to start. Hth. Greg On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 10:19:17PM +0330, Parham wrote: > Ok the problem with speech is now fixed. The only problem is that I have no > idea what programs I can run. How can I get things I can run? > FOr example I typed "firefox" and it said, "cannot open display" or such > thing. - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGkWhU7s9z/XlyUyARAm2eAJ9gMpqIQ3sYhQWD2nMepWc6z9dlmQCfSsxK Yi1KpNyV3BnzX/5oBe/6o7Q= =pnCn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----