Mate Desktop questions
Linux for blind general discussion
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Sun Oct 10 17:12:06 UTC 2021
Thanks for the tip on accessing the system tray. While I was able to
access it, all that it contains is the time/date and the "show desktop"
icons. I do not know where the WiFi icon is or how to put it there.
Regarding the "no sound" issue...
I determined that the sound is being muted. Luckily, the Thinkpad
laptops I am working with have a physical mute button, so I can press it
to unmute the sound and get Orca talking. I am baffled as to why the
sound is being muted. I am the only person currently using these
machines and I have no reason to mute the sound.
Therefore, is there a command that I can add somewhere, that can be
executed during Linux boot, that will ensure that the sound is not
muted? This will become a much bigger problem for me with the newer
Thinkpad laptops, that do not have a physical mute button.
Thanks,
John
On 10/7/2021 8:05 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Isn't Linux Mint still based on Ubuntu? How did they fix the problem of
> having to log out and back in to get a talking installer that Ubuntu has
> yet to fix? Ubuntu 21.10 needs to take a page from the Linux Mint
> playbook to make their installer talk without having to go through the
> work-around logout login procedure to get it talking. I myself would
> look at Mint, but I'm not fond of the Debian base. That doesn't preclude
> my installation of this distro for others, as I have been known to
> install Ubuntu for its ease of use, although I'm more partial to Fedora
> Linux these days, especially since it includes flatpak out of the box,
> and snapd can be installed quite easily. I actually have a couple of
> snaps working here without any issues.
>
>
> First, to get to the panel with the system tray, you usually hold down
> the alt and control keys and press the tab key repeatedly until you hear
> "top panel." But if I remember correctly, Mint has no top panel, only
> the bottom one, so your system tray is there. So if you never hear "top
> panel," just go to the bottom panel and you're good.
>
>
> The sound issue is caused by a conflict between more than one user
> trying to access sound at the same time. The conflict appears to be a
> race condition where the first user's sound session doesn't get killed
> fast enough, so the second user is blocked from using the sound device.
> This usually is not a problem using Pulseaudio, but for some reason
> Pipewire still has this problem. I switched up mine on Arch and I see
> the same thing, even running a talking login screen and then logging in
> as my normal user on a single-user system. Again, I only saw this when I
> switched that system to pipewire and installed the pipewire-pulse or
> pipewire-pulseaudio package, so it sounds like this may be what Mint is
> doing. It should be possible to resolve the issue using regular
> pulseaudio. If pulseaudio is already installed and this problem is still
> occurring, I'm not sure where to look next, unless you can set up a
> session wrapper script that will kill the user's running pulseaudio when
> that user logs out, which should happen automatically, but may not be
> happening early enough. I hope this helps.
>
> ~Kyle
>
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