* arch linux and orca
@ Christopher Moore
` Steve Holmes
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Moore @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hello,
Has anyone attempted to run gnome / orca screen reader on arch linux?
I'm going to give this a go but was looking for advice on
potential pitfalls to avoid.
Chris
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* Re: arch linux and orca
arch linux and orca Christopher Moore
@ ` Steve Holmes
` Glenn Ervin
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Steve Holmes @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Yes, I've been using it for over a year now. Speakup is readily
available, especially if you use the pre-configured installation media
available from Chris Brannon's site; sorry, I don't remember the exact
address now.
As for Orca, just be sure to install the gnome and gnome-extra
packages and I think that should be all you need; then at least for
the time being, run 'startx' from a normal user account and turn off
speakup before hitting the enter key. After sufficient wait (maybe
two minutes or so) press the alt+F2 key to open the run dialog in
gnome. Type 'orca' without the tick marks and hit enter. Orca should
soon start speaking and prompting you for setup information like which
speech engine to use, which language in some cases, etc. Getting
through these gnome steps is the trickiest part without speech. The
rest has worked fine for me. It's been over a year since my first
install of Arch so I might have missed a point but hopefully this will
get you on your way.
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:22:37AM -0400, Christopher Moore wrote:
> Hello,
> Has anyone attempted to run gnome / orca screen reader on arch linux?
> I'm going to give this a go but was looking for advice on
> potential pitfalls to avoid.
>
> Chris
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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` Steve Holmes
@ ` Glenn Ervin
` Christopher Brannon
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Ervin @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
what is Arch Linux, that is, what is different about it?
Thanks
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: arch linux and orca
Yes, I've been using it for over a year now. Speakup is readily
available, especially if you use the pre-configured installation media
available from Chris Brannon's site; sorry, I don't remember the exact
address now.
As for Orca, just be sure to install the gnome and gnome-extra
packages and I think that should be all you need; then at least for
the time being, run 'startx' from a normal user account and turn off
speakup before hitting the enter key. After sufficient wait (maybe
two minutes or so) press the alt+F2 key to open the run dialog in
gnome. Type 'orca' without the tick marks and hit enter. Orca should
soon start speaking and prompting you for setup information like which
speech engine to use, which language in some cases, etc. Getting
through these gnome steps is the trickiest part without speech. The
rest has worked fine for me. It's been over a year since my first
install of Arch so I might have missed a point but hopefully this will
get you on your way.
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:22:37AM -0400, Christopher Moore wrote:
> Hello,
> Has anyone attempted to run gnome / orca screen reader on arch linux?
> I'm going to give this a go but was looking for advice on
> potential pitfalls to avoid.
>
> Chris
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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` Glenn Ervin
@ ` Christopher Brannon
` Steve Holmes
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Brannon @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
"Glenn Ervin" <GlennErvin@cableone.net> writes:
> what is Arch Linux, that is, what is different about it?
> Thanks
It's a minimalist, do-it-yourself Linux distribution.
It doesn't hold your hand.
-- Chris
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` Christopher Brannon
@ ` Steve Holmes
` Chuck Hallenbeck
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Steve Holmes @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
With its package inventory, I don't know really how minimalistic it
actually is but the lack of hand-holding might make it seem
tminimalistic. When Chuck Hallenbeck turned me on to Arch last
summer, he compared it somewhat to being like Slackware as I had come
from a long Slackware background. The package management and
dependency tracking in ArchLinux is far better than Slackware
however. And more packages are available.
I also have never seen an easier system for creating new packages of
your own either.
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 11:08:51AM -0500, Christopher Brannon wrote:
> "Glenn Ervin" <GlennErvin@cableone.net> writes:
>
> > what is Arch Linux, that is, what is different about it?
> > Thanks
>
> It's a minimalist, do-it-yourself Linux distribution.
> It doesn't hold your hand.
>
> -- Chris
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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` Steve Holmes
@ ` Chuck Hallenbeck
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Chuck Hallenbeck @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
The thing I like best about archlinux is that it is a smoothly
evolving distribution which abolishes the idea of different versions,
or releases. Every other distro I can think of follow the idea that a
given version remains more or less fixed until a new version is
prepared and released, after which it remains stationary while another
version starts to be prepared. In biology they call that "punctuated
equilibrium" but in Linux, it divides the user community into the timid
and the bold, and creates havoc for the abrupt transition from Version
N to Version N+1. Archlinux is based on a "rolling release" notion, in
which the distro is constantly adjusted to reflect the best available
technology, so that if you use archlinux, you are by definition using
current technology, assuming you keep in touch with the archives, a
very simply thing to do.
Chuck
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 01:55:36PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> With its package inventory, I don't know really how minimalistic it
> actually is but the lack of hand-holding might make it seem
> tminimalistic. When Chuck Hallenbeck turned me on to Arch last
> summer, he compared it somewhat to being like Slackware as I had come
> from a long Slackware background. The package management and
> dependency tracking in ArchLinux is far better than Slackware
> however. And more packages are available.
>
> I also have never seen an easier system for creating new packages of
> your own either.
>
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 11:08:51AM -0500, Christopher Brannon wrote:
> > "Glenn Ervin" <GlennErvin@cableone.net> writes:
> >
> > > what is Arch Linux, that is, what is different about it?
> > > Thanks
> >
> > It's a minimalist, do-it-yourself Linux distribution.
> > It doesn't hold your hand.
> >
> > -- Chris
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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* re: arch linux and orca
@ aerospace1028
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: aerospace1028 @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
>Message: 4
>Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 10:22:37 -0400
>From: Christopher Moore <chris.w1gm@gmail.com>
>To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>Subject: arch linux and orca
>Message-ID: <20100906142235.GA1687@nextdog>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>Hello,
>Has anyone attempted to run gnome / orca screen reader on arch linux?
>I'm going to give this a go but was looking for advice on
>potential pitfalls to avoid.
I'm using gnome/orca on archlinux. It's not that difficult to install (it can't be if I did it successfully). Michael Wapples had an audio tutorial on the process, but it was pretty straightforward. Pretty much follow the arch beginner's installation guide on installing gnome,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,then you just need to go through the standard initial orca configuration the first time you run it and make the .orbitrc file (and modify sudoers if you use sudo) to obtain access to admin applications.
The arch directions may seem daunting but they're not really that bad.
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