X, lynx and audio

X, lynx and audio

[Keith Heltsley]

Just a couple questions.

1. For the sake of my son, who wants to play on my newly setup RedHat box,
how do I set up an account for him that will open in x-windows?  Can I make
it so x only opens when he logsin?

2. I managed to get the lynx rpm to install. wow, that was easy. Just a
matter of locating it on the right disk. Now, where is the lynx.cfg? I was
wanting to replace it with the one Janina included on the goodies disk.  Or
at least make lynx put numbered links in the browser. I found the setting in
the options but I either am not doing it right or the setting isn't being
saved, even after hitting the 'Accept' button.

3. I don't have any speakers hooked up to my sound card yet. I've just been
using the double talk speaker. What program do I use to play waves or mp3
files when I can find an extra speaker to plug into it? I know it's a dumb
question, but even on my previous shell accounts i never had access to
playing sounds over the network connection.

More questions to come, but that should do it for now:_)
Happy Easter
from
Keith H.

"When the student is ready, the master appears."
        - Buddhist Proverb

Re: X, lynx and audio

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

Can't answer your X question, but I'm sure someone else will.

Yes, the numbered links is a personal options entry, not in the lynx.cfg
file.  To make the settings stick, you have to check the "save options to
disk" checkbox, which is after the help link in the options page.

As for playing audio, you literally have many choices.  I use sox (via the
play command) generally for playing wav files.  You can play MP3 files with
mpg123 or freeamp or trplayer.  You can also use trplayer for realaudio,
which is what it's generally meant for.  but there are lots of choices for
all of these.

Geoff.


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Re: X, lynx and audio

[Keith Heltsley]

Ah ha, I missed that checkbox somehow. I'll play with that later. I don't
have the RedHat box setup for going online yet. I'll take care of that
setting as soon as I can.

thanks Jeff,
from
Keith H.

OxyMoron:
1. Microsoft Works

Re: X, lynx and audio

[Janina Sajka]

Geoff: The numbered  links option is so in the lynx.cfg file. Did you look 
at this file? Or did you just say what you thought might be the case?


On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> Can't answer your X question, but I'm sure someone else will.
> 
> Yes, the numbered links is a personal options entry, not in the lynx.cfg
> file.  To make the settings stick, you have to check the "save options to
> disk" checkbox, which is after the help link in the options page.
> 
> As for playing audio, you literally have many choices.  I use sox (via the
> play command) generally for playing wav files.  You can play MP3 files with
> mpg123 or freeamp or trplayer.  You can also use trplayer for realaudio,
> which is what it's generally meant for.  but there are lots of choices for
> all of these.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
> 

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Re: X, lynx and audio

[Dave Hunt]

For playing  audio files like 'wav', you already have the program "play".  
Similarly, you have "rec" for recording.  To play things like RealAudio, 
there's trplayer, a command-line realmedia player.  You need the 
realplayer installed for trplayer to work.  To make a browser like lynx 
launch the right thing (eg trplayer for mp3), you need two files:  
".maincap" and ".mime.types" in your home directory.  Someone has placed 
an archive of these two files on the speakup site, in the "goodies" area, 
called "mailcapstuff.tar.gz".  This set of fiels will likely work as-is.  
If not, customize as needed.   I believe everything you need is on the 
speakup site.  

Re: X, lynx and audio

[Dave Hunt]

Correction:

That file is called ".mailcap", not ".maincap".

-Dave

Re: X, lynx and audio

[Janina Sajka]

As Dave says, everything you need is on the speakup site. But, it's also 
on your goodies cdr.


On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Dave Hunt wrote:

> For playing  audio files like 'wav', you already have the program "play".  
> Similarly, you have "rec" for recording.  To play things like RealAudio, 
> there's trplayer, a command-line realmedia player.  You need the 
> realplayer installed for trplayer to work.  To make a browser like lynx 
> launch the right thing (eg trplayer for mp3), you need two files:  
> ".maincap" and ".mime.types" in your home directory.  Someone has placed 
> an archive of these two files on the speakup site, in the "goodies" area, 
> called "mailcapstuff.tar.gz".  This set of fiels will likely work as-is.  
> If not, customize as needed.   I believe everything you need is on the 
> speakup site.  
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

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				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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Re: X, lynx and audio

[Keith Heltsley]

Hey,
I'm replying to my own message. It seems my lynx.cfg question was already
answered by Janina in an earlier message. I guess it pays to read mail
first, then ask dumb questions later*grin*

I still would like to hear about getting the x-windows thing taken care
ofof.  Also any input of what to expect once I get a speaker hooked up as
far as listening to audio or running emacspeak.

thanks for any input.
from
Keith H.

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge,
and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
        - George Bernard Shaw

Re: X, lynx and audio

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Keith:

Set up an account for your son as follows:

useradd [whatever.name.]

Next give him a default password like this:

passwd [whatever.name]

Now have him login in and change the password with the same command, 
passwd.

Next, to give him X, put the command:

startx

at the bottom of his .bash_profile


On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Keith Heltsley wrote:

> Hey,
> I'm replying to my own message. It seems my lynx.cfg question was already
> answered by Janina in an earlier message. I guess it pays to read mail
> first, then ask dumb questions later*grin*
> 
> I still would like to hear about getting the x-windows thing taken care
> ofof.  Also any input of what to expect once I get a speaker hooked up as
> far as listening to audio or running emacspeak.
> 
> thanks for any input.
> from
> Keith H.
> 
> "What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge,
> and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
>         - George Bernard Shaw
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

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				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Re: X, lynx and audio

[Charles Hallenbeck]

I have been playing with X here and can tell you how it works on
a Slackware distro (it is probably the same on Redhat, actually)

You need to configure X first, be becoming root and running the
program "xf86config" (all lower case) which will create a
configuration file for you. The file will be called "XF86Config"
(some letters are caps) and it will be put in "/etc/X11" for you
(capital X).

Once you have configured X for your system, running it is simple.
Your son would first log into some account, either yours or one
you create for his use, and simply type "startx". That is all
there is to it. He can get out of X by typing
"ctrl-alt-backspace".
There are a number of window managers to choose from, but one in
particular is designed to have the "look and feel" of Win95. It
might make the simplest transition, assuming familiarity with
that desktop. It is called "fvwm95" and has a man page to
describe it.

HTH - Chuck

On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Keith Heltsley wrote:

> Just a couple questions.
>
> 1. For the sake of my son, who wants to play on my newly setup RedHat box,
> how do I set up an account for him that will open in x-windows?  Can I make
> it so x only opens when he logsin?
>
> 2. I managed to get the lynx rpm to install. wow, that was easy. Just a
> matter of locating it on the right disk. Now, where is the lynx.cfg? I was
> wanting to replace it with the one Janina included on the goodies disk.  Or
> at least make lynx put numbered links in the browser. I found the setting in
> the options but I either am not doing it right or the setting isn't being
> saved, even after hitting the 'Accept' button.
>
> 3. I don't have any speakers hooked up to my sound card yet. I've just been
> using the double talk speaker. What program do I use to play waves or mp3
> files when I can find an extra speaker to plug into it? I know it's a dumb
> question, but even on my previous shell accounts i never had access to
> playing sounds over the network connection.
>
> More questions to come, but that should do it for now:_)
> Happy Easter
> from
> Keith H.
>
> "When the student is ready, the master appears."
>         - Buddhist Proverb
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck
The Moon is Waning Gibbous (90% of Full)

Re: X, lynx and audio

[Thomas Ward]

Actually, most of them kind of look like Windows. He could also put startx
in the .bash_profile, and that will make it come up on login.

----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Hallenbeck <hallenbeck@valstar.net>
To: SpeakUp List <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: X, lynx and audio


> I have been playing with X here and can tell you how it works on
> a Slackware distro (it is probably the same on Redhat, actually)
>
> You need to configure X first, be becoming root and running the
> program "xf86config" (all lower case) which will create a
> configuration file for you. The file will be called "XF86Config"
> (some letters are caps) and it will be put in "/etc/X11" for you
> (capital X).
>
> Once you have configured X for your system, running it is simple.
> Your son would first log into some account, either yours or one
> you create for his use, and simply type "startx". That is all
> there is to it. He can get out of X by typing
> "ctrl-alt-backspace".
> There are a number of window managers to choose from, but one in
> particular is designed to have the "look and feel" of Win95. It
> might make the simplest transition, assuming familiarity with
> that desktop. It is called "fvwm95" and has a man page to
> describe it.
>
> HTH - Chuck
>
> On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Keith Heltsley wrote:
>
> > Just a couple questions.
> >
> > 1. For the sake of my son, who wants to play on my newly setup RedHat
box,
> > how do I set up an account for him that will open in x-windows?  Can I
make
> > it so x only opens when he logsin?
> >
> > 2. I managed to get the lynx rpm to install. wow, that was easy. Just a
> > matter of locating it on the right disk. Now, where is the lynx.cfg? I
was
> > wanting to replace it with the one Janina included on the goodies disk.
Or
> > at least make lynx put numbered links in the browser. I found the
setting in
> > the options but I either am not doing it right or the setting isn't
being
> > saved, even after hitting the 'Accept' button.
> >
> > 3. I don't have any speakers hooked up to my sound card yet. I've just
been
> > using the double talk speaker. What program do I use to play waves or
mp3
> > files when I can find an extra speaker to plug into it? I know it's a
dumb
> > question, but even on my previous shell accounts i never had access to
> > playing sounds over the network connection.
> >
> > More questions to come, but that should do it for now:_)
> > Happy Easter
> > from
> > Keith H.
> >
> > "When the student is ready, the master appears."
> >         - Buddhist Proverb
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
>
> Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck
> The Moon is Waning Gibbous (90% of Full)
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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>

Re: X, lynx and audio

[Keith Heltsley]

I'm still playing with the x-windows thing. If I just have him do a
Ctrl+Alt+F7, won't that open up into a GUI session?

I might just have him do that for now.  I'll play with the config you
suggested just to see what I can do for him.

from
Keith H.


--- You Wrote ---
Actually, most of them kind of look like Windows. He could also put startx
in the .bash_profile, and that will make it come up on login.

Re: X, lynx and audio

[Janina Sajka]

The X configuration script on Red Hat is Xconfigurator.


On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> I have been playing with X here and can tell you how it works on
> a Slackware distro (it is probably the same on Redhat, actually)
> 
> You need to configure X first, be becoming root and running the
> program "xf86config" (all lower case) which will create a
> configuration file for you. The file will be called "XF86Config"
> (some letters are caps) and it will be put in "/etc/X11" for you
> (capital X).
> 
> Once you have configured X for your system, running it is simple.
> Your son would first log into some account, either yours or one
> you create for his use, and simply type "startx". That is all
> there is to it. He can get out of X by typing
> "ctrl-alt-backspace".
> There are a number of window managers to choose from, but one in
> particular is designed to have the "look and feel" of Win95. It
> might make the simplest transition, assuming familiarity with
> that desktop. It is called "fvwm95" and has a man page to
> describe it.
> 
> HTH - Chuck
> 
> On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Keith Heltsley wrote:
> 
> > Just a couple questions.
> >
> > 1. For the sake of my son, who wants to play on my newly setup RedHat box,
> > how do I set up an account for him that will open in x-windows?  Can I make
> > it so x only opens when he logsin?
> >
> > 2. I managed to get the lynx rpm to install. wow, that was easy. Just a
> > matter of locating it on the right disk. Now, where is the lynx.cfg? I was
> > wanting to replace it with the one Janina included on the goodies disk.  Or
> > at least make lynx put numbered links in the browser. I found the setting in
> > the options but I either am not doing it right or the setting isn't being
> > saved, even after hitting the 'Accept' button.
> >
> > 3. I don't have any speakers hooked up to my sound card yet. I've just been
> > using the double talk speaker. What program do I use to play waves or mp3
> > files when I can find an extra speaker to plug into it? I know it's a dumb
> > question, but even on my previous shell accounts i never had access to
> > playing sounds over the network connection.
> >
> > More questions to come, but that should do it for now:_)
> > Happy Easter
> > from
> > Keith H.
> >
> > "When the student is ready, the master appears."
> >         - Buddhist Proverb
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> 
> Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck
> The Moon is Waning Gibbous (90% of Full)
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org