Re: [orca-list] Orcaquery new Ubuntu user

[Kenny Hitt <kenny hittsjunk net>]

Hi.  You can cut and paste in gnome-terminal.
You use Orca's review keys to select text, and shift-ctl-c and shift-ctl-v instead of ctl-c and ctl-v for 
copy and paste.
I don't know if this is documented on the wiki, but details have been posted to this list in the past.

          Kenny


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 07:56:47AM +0200, Rudolf Weeber wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 03:05:33PM +1000, Scott Rutkowski wrote:
> > I've managed to run the live cd for Ubuntu 7.10 and it's running fine. I'm wondering is the support for 
> > Orca better in the latest Ubuntu 8.04 release and should I wait for this release before doing anything 
> > major with Ubuntu and Orca?
> I think, orca has improved alot over the last six months. It is
> therefore worthwhile installing a newer version. 
> I'm still using Ubuntu 7.10 but with the latest orca - compiled from
> source.
> There are instructions for this on the orca wiki.
>
> > My main problem with Orca is are most of you using the gui in orca or do you all mainly use a terminal 
> > window to carry out most functions in Ubuntu?
> I use a terminal whenever possible, because thats just faster once you
> get to know all the commands. Many sighted people do this as well.
> I use Orca for OpenOffice, Firefox and the file manager.
>
> For the terminal, I still use the text console with brltty, because
> there is no cursor routing and copy/paste support in gnome-terminal with
> orca yet.
>
> > The main problem also is with gnome itself, is there a taskbar like in windows where you can access icons 
> > such as the time date and if there are any updates for Ubuntu?
> Yes. You jump to this area (whcih also contains the menu bar) by
> pressing alt+ctrl+tab.
>
> > What's the easiest way of making sure your system is up to date with all packages and what's the first 
> > thing one should do once Ubuntu is installed?
> You should cary out the instructions for making it possible to run
> administrative commands with orca support. This is also explained in the
> wiki.
> After that, you can use 
> update-manager
> to check for updates.
> Alternatively, you can run
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> in a terminal to fetch updates.
>
>
> Hth,
> cheers, Rudolf
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