Solus DE observations

Wed Aug 4 22:44:26 UTC 2021

I've been able to play GUI games that were made to be accessible and run 
in GNU/Linux, such as 2MB MineRacer, and an old tomb raider thing.  
Also, the user, Storm Dragon, has written what he calls his Audio Game 
Manager, which lets you play a bunch of old Windows games in the Linux 
gui, using wine and a bunch of helper scripts.  Getting that thing 
installed into Solus looks like it would be a huge challenge.  He 
basically wrote the thing for Arch and Slint; in the latter, the build 
process took a long time, and there were lots of instructions.

In a previous message, you wrote about keyboard shortcuts in Budgie?  
Try the Solus help center; there's a small table of about 10.  One 
particular short cut, you asked about, is looking at your mounted 
drives.  That one is not there, because it's not in Budgie, rather, it's 
in the file manager.  If you start off, for instance, in your home 
folder, you can toggle various panes with f6.  One of these is like the 
"places" menu in something like Mate.  Your mounted volumes should show 
up there; hit up and down arrows to find them, and hit space on the one 
you want. You should get shifted into the content pane.

HTH,

Dave  Hunt

Sent from my Lenovo Thinkpad, running Slint GNU/Linux.  https://slint.fr for info

On 8/4/21 6:26 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> One good thing about this solus distro is that there's a games
> specializing distro.  What will be interesting will be to find out how
> many more g.u.i. games either become more accessible or become accessible
> users can play on solus.  Most of the g.u.i. games available for Linux
> have yet to get accessible unless huge changes have happened since I last
> checked out the scene.
>
>
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
>> If I remember, it was the mate edition, about a year and a half ago.
>>
>>> On Aug 4, 2021, at 12:30 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Installing Mint was exactly like installing Ubuntu, as far as I recall.  Maybe you grabbed the Cinnamon edition last time?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>> Dave  H.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my Lenovo Thinkpad, running Slint GNU/Linux.  https://slint.fr for info
>>>
>>> On 8/4/21 7:05 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>>> How was linux mint and orca during installing?
>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 3, 2021, at 9:23 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This message is coming from my Solus Mate installation.  Mate and the applications work as expected, with the exception of speech dispatcher.  All other audio sounds fine, but speech is a little choppy.  Also, I found that some packages aren't in the repos, namely LIOS and Chirp.  I don't know what the build experience is like in Solus, and have those packages in my Slint system. Speaking of Slint, have you considered it?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have used Linux Mint Mate edition, and find that the accessibility works fine in the apps and on the desktop and menus.  I find that I have to use flat review on Mint Mate's bottom panel, and the battery  charge indicator doesn't seem to refresh properly.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> HTH,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dave  H.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent with Thunderbird and Solus GNU/Linux.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 8/3/21 10:13 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>>>>> Dave, I have used gnome and mate with ubuntu.
>>>>>> I thought of linux mint, and tried it, but orca would not work.
>>>>>> Had you tried mint?
>>>>>> As to Solus, is that workable?
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