Question, is it possible to install Linux on a portion of my hard drive? Using a Dell Latitude 3520.

Sun Apr 10 20:00:04 UTC 2022

Good afternoon everyone, my subject line pretty much says it all. Machine that I'm using is used primarily for dictation. So I cannot use the entire hard drive. I'm thinking a partition of somewhere between 50 and 60 GB stood be sufficient for this?

The big question here is is any distro that I download want to be something that I can install myself? Meaning have either speech or more importantly braille accepts. Question number two is the graphical know just how the best way to use the Lennox partition? Used Ubuntu in a virtual machine on my mount. But this machine is a completely Windows machine. I'm thinking things might go much better. Question will I need some kind of virtualization software on the laptop to enable the next to run. In other words how do I keep the two operating systems part. The final question has anyone had significant issues with Dell hardware. I'm much more familiar with Mac OS, and Apple hardware. I'm not very well-versed in your PC hardware is status. However this machine is a core I five, apparently something generation, and it has 16 gig of RAM, and a 512 solid-state drive. Is there anything in the specifications that would create issues? So far as I can tell, I think the soundcard, and the speakers work well. I hope everyone has a great Sunday afternoon.

Sincerely Maurice Mines.

Finally, just be aware that I am dictating this entire email to my computer by using dictation software. There may in fact be errors in the text above. If you don't understand something, please ask me what my original intent may abet. In other words asked me if you notice a mistake that creates issues with you being able to understand what I'm saying. I will be happy to attempt to clarify things. Thank you very much for reading this.

If you wish to respond off list, here is my direct email. Please note this is not the email that use to post to this list. Therefore if you send email to it please be aware that it will not be shown on the list. maurice at maurice-amines.com. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Blinux-list <blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com> On Behalf Of Linux for blind general discussion
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2022 8:39 AM
To: blinux-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Dragonfm history vs show hidden

Howdy,

I will take a look at home.

Cheers chrys

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

> Am 10.04.2022 um 17:30 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>:
> 
> I did.
> 
> I put a # before the existing ones and have it set as follows
> 
> KEY_BACKSPACE=toggle hidden
> 
> It shows success for every other command but that one however. I'm not 
> sure if it's a distro issue with Solus however though but once i'm 
> back on my Arch box I can test it there though
> 
>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 05:22:41PM +0200, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> Strange i don't see this here.  Here it shows/ hides the folder / files as expected.
>> 
>> Did you rebind your keys already to something?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>> Am 10.04.2022 um 16:37 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>:
>>> 
>>> I've got it saying toggle hidden, but none of the hidden files 
>>> showed up even after setting it right.
>>> 
>>> I made a .test.txt fie in ~/Documents and hit toggle hidden, with no 
>>> luck. The .test.txt doesn't show up nor do places like .config.
>>> 
>>> Is that a Solus issue? I'm only running into this as my one big 
>>> issue with DragonFM. I unbound Backspace from history and put it on 
>>> show hidden instead so I can ctrl+H for hidden toggle
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 03:40:23PM +0200, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>>> Howdy,
>>>> 
>>>> A small tip for figure sequences for shortcuts. You can set input=True in debug section of the settings file. Any keypress prints its escape sequence ( and if it triggers an action)  will then printed for a given amount of time in the first line on screen.
>>>> Its very noisy for you but just thought for debug and figure sequences. You can disable it then again.
>>>> 
>>>> By the way, i forgot to answer how to unbind an action: just comment the line in settings file out wit an # as first character per line. 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> Am 10.04.2022 um 14:57 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Howdy,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Well, you can try, but i don’t  think there is an escape sequence for ctrl + backspace.  I don’t think there is any escape sequence for modifier key + backspace  combination available.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have to say, this concept is an dinosaur that should be rethought in the 21 century. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers chrys
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Am 10.04.2022 um 14:29 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So wouldd^and then backspace change that to ctrl+backspace 
>>>>>> change that so control and backspace works for that and ctrl+h does hidden files or?
>>>>>> Or do I need to do something like '' to tell DragonFM that 
>>>>>> there's no key bound for that function or do I just leave that 
>>>>>> blank? I can probably find something to rebind it to but I'm 
>>>>>> thinking just unbindd the backspace key?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 02:15:55PM +0200, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>>>>>> Howdy,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Well to explain what you see, you need to understand how shortcuts on an command line application work.
>>>>>>> The commandline reads any input from STDIN. This is also valid for shortcuts. The operating system translates some (not all, depending on terminal capabilities) input to a sequence of ascii codes. This sequences are sent to STDIN then.This series starts with an special ascii character, the Escape code. This is why this sequences are named escape sequences. How many escape sequences are „translated“ or „understand“ depends on the used terminal standard (TTY uses as far as i know VT100 standard, correct me if i m wrong, terminal emulators can often emulate various kind of standards, depending on the emulator and configuration).
>>>>>>> The issue you see here is the fact that some of the escape  
>>>>>>> sequences do not have a printable representation. For this there are various cases where printable sequences defined for the non printable representation. Long thing short: in your case, Ctrl + h is the printable ascii representation of backspace. So an command line application can not mate a difference between ctrl + h and backspace at all ( so its a limitation of the deeper level of terminal and operating system, not an issue of dragonFM) You can see this in plain bash, vim or nano as well (and any oder commandline application)l, type something, press ctrl + h, it behaves like backspace and will delete the character left to the cursor.
>>>>>>> See here for a list of (some?) of those „duplicates“. 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.bpxa40
>>>>>>> 0/ks1.htm
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> But like noted, this depends heavily on the Terminal.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Sorry my friend, there is not much i can do here.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> What can we do now?
>>>>>>> Well, all we can do is choosing what is more important for you and rebind backspace „KEY_BACKSPACE“ (what is currently bound to leave entry, wo moves to parent folder) to toggle hidden (and unbind or rebind leave entry then ) or use another shortcut for hidden.
>>>>>>> See here in settings:
>>>>>>> KEY_BACKSPACE=leave_entry
>>>>>>> …
>>>>>>> ^[H=toggle_hidden
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Cheers chrys
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Am 10.04.2022 um 11:52 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> So quick question Chrys...
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I'm trying to have history switched to ctrl+H on my copy of 
>>>>>>>> Dragonfm, to line up more with how Nautilus/Caja does it. 
>>>>>>>> However that shortcut seems hardcoded in with no way to change 
>>>>>>>> it in the config file. I'm trying to fix it since alt+H brings 
>>>>>>>> up a terminal's help menu and I'd like ctrl+H to show/hide 
>>>>>>>> hidden files since that's a common enough shortcut on desktop file managers so why not have it in DragonFM?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> So where do I need to look to switch the function of ctrl+H in 
>>>>>>>> the program? Currently it brings up the location bar, page 1/2 
>>>>>>>> and doesn't show or hide hidden folders, instead going back one 
>>>>>>>> step despite not being defined as such in the config settings
>>>>>>>> 
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