introducing myself to the list, and questions? Please read below.

[maurice mines]

Good evening everyone, first of all let me introduce myself. My name is 
Maurice, I was on this list probably three years ago I think. I got away 
from Lennix for a while. But for Brady up reasons am going ductwork.


Just so that everyone knows, I'm running the desktop version in a 
virtual machine on a 2020 MacBook Pro. The virtualization software is 
parallels.


Because this very, or may not pertain to my issue I should tell you that 
I use the orca screen reader. While the speech has much to be desired at 
times it is better than nothing, because when I look up braille TTY it 
appears that the current distribution setups are geared towards the Red 
Hat crown. So I'm thinking that I may not want to deal with the anytime 
soon.


The issues, the first one is for some unknown reason I am unable to get 
the built-in version of Firefox to run. Because of the limitations of 
orca I'm not sure if it is just an issue of permissions, or if something 
is not installed. But it seems to not want to run properly. When it does 
run, a remote cited person meaning the world would be after that using 
appropriate remote control software, told me that it appears that the 
application of the is running but orca is refusing to look at it. The 
other issue that could be going on here is when a member terminal seems 
to be the dictation the better it's another instance of Oracle running 
somehow in the background. I'm thinking this can't be possible, because 
of the virtual machine and I'm thinking that only one process like a 
screen reader to be running at any given time. That process is of course 
the one that I'm using.


The next issue is trying to get access to the desktop icons in Gnome. 
The second issue is regarding terminal. For some bizarre reason the 
terminal session that I logged into meeting what I run the show, appears 
to be sitting down part of the firebox directory. It is hard to tell 
whether it is the directory the Firefox package Land's End: or if it is 
a part of the currently working Firefox.


My final question much relates to this, but no one limitations them what 
I've written above and some of my issues exist when using a program such 
as parallels desktop for Mac.


By the way one thing about this note, please be aware that I am 
dictating this to a Windows machine due to a additional disability. 
Every effort has been made to weed out spellings, and bore the wrong 
word in some cases. So if there are things we need that you truly don't 
understand, please feel free to reach out to me and we can start an 
email conversation.


Sincerely Maurice Mines.

VP national federal out what the blind of California Bakersfield chapter.

Board member National Federation of the Blind deaf blind division.

First VP national Federation of the blind of California deaf blind division.

Amateur radio call sign, kd0iko.

Direct voicemail to text number 661-868-9647, from 7 AM to 10 PM local time.

On 9/5/2022 3:02 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 1:14 PM Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
> :
>> So, is it possible to get rid of this snap stuff, and, run Ubuntu
>> without this snap irritant?
>>
> I asked the almighty oracle of the web for how to disable snaps.
>
> This is one of many hits I found:
> https://onlinux.systems/guides/20220524_how-to-disable-and-remove-snap-on-ubuntu-2204
>
> It seems to be fairly complete. It even includes instructions on how
> to get Firefox from the mozilla PPA.
>
> I haven't had any trouble with it so far.
>
> I can't speak for Thunderbird - I don't use it.
>
> HTH.
>
> Mark
>