Has anyone gotten i3 accessible yet? or is there a better option besides ratpoison, which is great, btw

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Wed Feb 9 14:03:48 UTC 2022


So, on i3's Talk page on the Arch wiki there's discussion about 
accessibility actually

However, I installed it, and it didn't seem to play nice with Orca

Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Ah well,
>
> As I said, I'm happy with ratpoison or on the console, as I am at the 
> moment.
>
> It would be interesting if StumpWM can be modded the same way as 
> ratpoison, since it is a fork of ratpoison after all.
>
> I just don't have the mind to do something like that, I'm just an 
> average user with an interest in tech.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Brandt Steenkamp
>
> Sent from the Slint console using Alpine
>
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 00:11:14 +0000
>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten i3 accessible yet? or is there a 
>> better option
>>     besides ratpoison, which is great, btw
>>
>> Not really a WM...
>>
>> But I've adapted Strychnine to work with LXDE/LXQT. I couldn't get i3 
>> to work and I'm not touching xmonad at all. I'm not sure about 
>> Stumpwm however....but I've yet to find anything as intuitive as 
>> Ratpoison personally. If i3 can be made accessible, I'd like that but 
>> I'm not sure. Wasn't there a github/gitlab bounty for it a while ago?
>>
>> Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>> The subject encompassed basically all I wanted to know.
>>>
>>>
>>> I remember a while ago someone built a talking arch installer using 
>>> the ezarch scripts. On their page they listed i3 as an accessible 
>>> option, but I could never get the thing to install on a VM, and at 
>>> the time I wasn't going to break my Windows install to test it. Now, 
>>> maybe, but I cannot for the life of me remember what that project 
>>> was called.
>>>
>>>
>>> If anyone got any tiling WM setups, besides ratpoison to work as 
>>> they should, please let me know.
>>>
>>>
>>> I really love the way ratpoison doesn't slow this machine down at all.
>>>
>>
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