Experiences with Elba

[John J. Boyer]

Tommy,

So how do I change the settings for individual applications? When I go 
to tools and then setup, I get the setup menu and submenus, but there 
is no hint of setting things individually for different applications. 
The manual says nothing about this. 

The Elba does have the su command, but the manual helpfully does not 
give the default password. I really think I have to be root for changes 
in setup to stick.

Thanks,
John

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:38:16PM -0600, Tommy Craig wrote:
> Hi John, 
> 
> 	The address for the Elba group is:
> 
> Elba-subscribe at smartgroups.com 
> 
> 	Please note that the e in Elba is capitolized. The reason that
> speech doesn't stay of is that each application saves it's settings
> separately. This is so you can have grade 2 in one application and not in
> another one or speech on in one application and not in the others. You can
> set items in the control center and they should stick unless you override
> them in an application. 
> 
> 	You can enter all the setup menus by typing t for tools and then s
> for setup. Under this menu you have a number of submenus for setting speech,
> braille, networking and much more. 
> 
> Tommy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:10 PM
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Experiences with Elba
> 
> 
> The Elba is indeed an interesting Linux Braille PDA. However, it takes 
> some getting used to. So far, I haven't been able to set it to my 
> preferences. In particular, I can't get it to stop talking. This is 
> very irritating, since even with my cochlear implant turned off i can 
> feel the vibrations. Also, if I switch it to Grade 2, it promptly goes 
> back to computer braille when I change to a different application. I've 
> tried turning off speech in the setup application numerous times, with 
> no result. Maybe I have to be root to change the defaults, but there is 
> no mention of this in the manual.
> 
> I haven't been able to subscribe to the Elba mailing list. The address given
> here a few days ago doesn't seem to work.
> 
> With all that, the Elba has a nice user interface. It is a good example 
> of how the usability generally associated with a GUI can be built into a 
> text-mode interface. 
> 
> John
> 
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