introduction

[Jude DaShiell]

What I downloaded now that it's installed doesn't offer a mate or gnome 
choice for session types but then again I didn't hit f4 on the login 
screen yet either and use of f4 may help.

On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Christopher Chaltain wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:48:04
> From: Christopher Chaltain <chaltain at gmail.com>
> To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: introduction
> 
> If you're running Vinux 5, you don't need to install Gnome. You can just go 
> into options on the log on screen and choose between Mate, Unity and Gnome.
>
> Also, if you're running Unity, you shouldn't have any trouble running Gnome.
>
> Chromium may not work well with Orca, but I use Chrome with ChromeVox all of 
> the time.
>
> I run Thunderbird with Gnome, and I don't have these issues.
>
> On 17/03/16 09:18, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> I have vinux5 installed which runs unity and found out thunderbird and
>> unity don't like each other very much.  I was able to enter my gmail
>> credentials and get to the inbox using I think it was shift-f10 inside
>> of thunderbird but haven't got email down for reading yet.  I may have
>> to install gnome but with only a gig of ram on my athelon X86_64 gnome
>> will probably crash the computer.  Inside mate to get to a terminal you
>> want to run mate-terminal since that runs faster than gnome-terminal.
>> The mate-terminal also works under unity.  Firefox works pretty well
>> from my limited use of it so far.  The chromium app isn't accessible for
>> orca at all and isn't worth messing with for now at least.  Emacs is
>> available and probably very accessible as a work environment which
>> should help cover any of libreoffice's shortcomings.  Thunderbird is
>> easily crashed over here, but then again I'm a touch typist and have
>> little tollerance for keyboard latency unless I get some kind of audio
>> indication that something I've done is being worked.  Some clicks from
>> the speaker would help in this respect but I don't know that any form of
>> Linux offers this feature that can be enabled yet.
>> More than that I don't yet know but will find out as I hack through this
>> system.
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Daniel Crone wrote:
>> 
>>> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:44:28
>>> From: Daniel Crone <quirky.wizard at gmx.com>
>>> To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
>>> Subject: introduction
>>> 
>>> Hello one and all.
>>> My name is Daniel, and I have used different operating systems through
>>> the years.
>>> I have decided to give ubuntu mate a try.
>>> I am very new to linux.
>>> Before starting, I welcome anyone?s words of wisdom for a totally
>>> blind user, new to linux.
>>> I liked the idea of sonar, but I have tried to install several times,
>>> and the installer never finished.
>>> But that could be due to my machine?s being so old and slow.
>>> From the dvd, sonar worked very well.
>>> I hope ubuntu will be equally good.
>>> So, hats off to all, those on the sonar team, and to all on the ubuntu
>>> team.
>>> I would really like for all linux accessibility people to benefit each
>>> other.
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>>> Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
>> 
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