Re: [orca-list] orca command-line configuration question, some success!

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

Maybe try hitting f10 and see if a bunch of menus come up.  Alternately
control-alt-tab gets you into top bar, then left and right arrow then
down arrow into desired menu if it's on the bar.

On Thu, 2 May 2019, Willem van der Walt wrote:

> Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 10:53:48
> From: Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>
> Cc: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] orca command-line configuration question,
>     some success!
>
> Hi Didier,
> Thanks.
> From what you say, there must still be something wrong with my mate
> installation.
> In the old Orca/gnome setup I had before, alt-f1 did bring up a menu, but now,
> I just get something like "window" spoken.
> I am not at the machine now, so cannot verify exactly.
> Thanks for the pointers.
> Regards, Willem
>
>
> On Thu, 2 May 2019, Didier Spaier wrote:
>
> > [The e-mail server of the sender could not be verified (SPF Record)]
> >
> > Hello Peter,
> >
> > for orca, a good way to learn is to use he integrated learning mode.
> >
> > Just press Orca+h and you will be guided.
> >
> > In Mate, Alt+F1 should raise the menu, from which you can navigate using the
> > arrow keys.
> >
> > Other than that, it's hard  to guide you as the key bindings for Mate depend
> > on the way it is configured.
> >
> > But you can know what they are (and change them) pressing Alt+F2 then
> > typing: mate-keybinding-properties, confirming with Enter and using the
> > arrow keys to navigate in the properties' menu.
> >
> > You can also type the commands in mate-terminal, that you can raise pressing
> > Alt+F2 then typing mate-terminal, or from the menu.
> >
> > Also, most Mate graphical components have an associated help, if yelp is
> > installed: then you will find the Help button pressing Tab several times.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Didier
> >
> > On 02/05/2019 15:05, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >> I now seem to have orca coming up each time I run startx from the user I
> >> created for experimentation.
> >> Although somewhat by accident, I do not have a gui login coming up at boot,
> >> which is actually what I prefer.
> >> So I believe I have mate installed as the desktop for this gui user of
> >> mine.? It does not say a lot, but I once succeeded to get to a place where
> >> I could type a command by pressing alt-f2.
> >> I tried firefox and could get to a web site.
> >> As you can gather, I think since the very old versions of Orca/desktops I
> >> used, things have changed a lot.
> >>
> >> I do not have to use mate, but since that is what I seem to have going now,
> >> I need some tutorial spesific to orca use with mate, since I do not know
> >> either of the two.
> >>
> >> I had a look at the orca manual, but what I saw looks like it assumes that
> >> one knows how to operate the desktop and goes into things like navigating
> >> documents etc.
> >>
> >> Any pointers, even just to the relevant section of the orca manual, would
> >> be welcome.
> >> Kind regards, Willem
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2 May 2019, Peter V?gner wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> Sorry for adding more confusion.
> >>> So on slint no pulseaudio is ever used until some one directly or
> >>> indirectly inwokes it.
> >>>
> >>> And alsa is used by default all the time except of the case when pulse
> >>> audio is started. If pulseaudio is started then its alsa emulation is used
> >>> not to break alsa dependant apps in such a way that they can play sound
> >>> simultaneously.
> >>>
> >>> This sounds awesome and theoretically speaking might help hardcore alsa
> >>> users like Janina to live a bit better in the situations where pulseaudio
> >>> is difficult to avoid entirely.
> >>>
> >>> Greetings
> >>>
> >>> Peter
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> D?a May 2, 2019 12:09:23 PM UTC pou??vate? Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>
> >>> nap?sal:
> >>>> Correction: instead of the last line, please read:
> >>>> hardware audio device, alsa drivers, alsa app.
> >>>>
> >>>> On 02/05/2019 13:51, Didier Spaier wrote:
> >>>>> So, in case of a "real" alsa app, the chain is rather:
> >>>>> hardware audio device, alsa app.
> >>>
> >>> --?
> >>> Odoslan? z m?jho Android zariadenia prostredn?ctvom K-9 Mail. Pros?m,
> >>> ospravedl?te moju stru?nos?.
> >>
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> >> Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> >> Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> >> GNOME Universal Access guide:
> >> https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> >> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> >>
> >

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