Re: [orca-list] The gnome switcher applet on Ubuntu

[Georgina Joyce <gena mga demon co uk>]

Hi

Thanks, I understand what it does and being a long term linux user I'm
used to having 11 virtual consoles available to me and could do with
more than 2 desktops within the GUI environment.  My question was how to
access the switcher applet because if you right click on it you can
select it's properties and ask for more.  But the documentation doesn't
tell me where it is so that I can navigate orca to it.  Ubuntu seems to
be missing an /etc/inittab file a my computer icon and now I can't find
the switcher applet.  Oh well, it makes for more fun.

Thanks. 
On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 12:02 -0400, Jeffrey Shockley wrote:
> Hi,
> That is all the info that Orca gives when you switch to the different
> workspaces. I don't remember exactly what they do, but I think it just
> devides the screen into more than one desktop to make it easier when
> you have a lot of programs running.
> HTH,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Georgina Joyce <gena mga demon co uk>
> Reply-To: gena mga demon co uk
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: [orca-list] The gnome switcher applet on Ubuntu
> Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:58:18 +0100
>
> Hi
>
> Just been reading up on the gnome desktop keyboard commands.  It seems
> that I only have two desktops with this Ubuntu Hardy installation.  When
> I followed the link to the switcher applet manual on the library.gnome
> site.  I found it to be a broken link.
>
> So could anyone tell me how to right click on the switcher applet using
> orca on this Ubuntu box?  I've tried even asking a sighted person where
> the applet was visually but he couldn't see it.  Is this yet another
> thing Ubuntu have stripped from their distribution'.  It must be
> somewhere because I can switch between desktop one and two.
>
> So what do other Ubuntu Hardy users get when they press control + alt +
> left arrow and right arrow?  Do up and down arrows reveal any more than
> the two desktops I found when moving left to right?
> ? 
> Hope this makes sense, thanks.
>  
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