Ubuntu with Orca

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I'm running Orca with Ubuntu 16.04 and the Gnome desktop, and I'd 
consider it rock solid.


On 01/23/2018 10:28 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> It seems speech-dispatcher got stuck when trying to stop it. A week 
> ago I try installing Ubuntu 16.04 and experiencing that issue. I had 
> to kill it with "kill -9" then restart orca. I think ubuntu 16.04 is 
> not stable enough with orca. It crashed quite often on my system.
>
> Now I use Debian 9 and it's pretty rock solid. Orca is running 
> smoothly and I have no need to restart it even once. If you have the 
> option, you may want to use Debian.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Edhoari Setiyoso
>
> email : edhoari.s at gmail.com
> skype : edhoari.s
>
> On 01/24/2018 03:27 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> Hello Alex,
>>
>> I am just trying to interact with the console as of now. I do not 
>> have the time to work through all the desktop commands but eventually 
>> I will learn by doing I am sure. I need to be able to interact with 
>> the console for issuing commands and more importantly reading  the 
>> output of those commands. I ran some simple commands like sudo 
>> apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade and nothing was being read 
>> out to me using Orca. When I ran sudo apt-get install git things were 
>> being read out but when I pressed CTRL to stop the mass amounts of 
>> speech output I was unable to read the output in the window. When I 
>> press the super key plus ALT and S to stop and start the speech it is 
>> mostly unresponsive. Some times it will go off but then will not come 
>> back on for a while. Thanks
>> Bryan Duarte | software engineer
>>
>> ASU Computer Science Ph.D Student
>> IGERT Fellow
>> Alliance for Person-centered Accessible Technology (APAcT)
>> Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC Lab)
>> National Federation of the Blind of Arizona | Affiliate Board Member
>> National Association of Blind Students | Board Member
>> Arizona Association of Blind Students | President
>> Phone: 480-652-3045
>>
>>> On Jan 23, 2018, at 12:40 PM, Linux for blind general discussion 
>>> <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 23/01/2018 à 18:31, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
>>>> Hey all,
>>>> I bought an HP and installed Ubuntu 16.04 on it. I am having some 
>>>> issues with Orca not responding to key commands as it should and 
>>>> terminal output not being read. Do I need to install Gnome text 
>>>> based desktop? Is that even possible after the fact? Any help in 
>>>> getting this to work would be much appreciated.
>>> Hello Bryan,
>>>
>>> Could you be more precise on what is your issue ? What are you 
>>> trying to do exactly on which software ?
>>>
>>> Best regards.
>>> -- 
>>> Alex ARNAUD
>>> Visual-Impairment Project Manager
>>> Hypra - "Humanizing technology"
>>>
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