Re: [orca-list] orca and lxde or xfce

[Robert Cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>]

Hello, Simon.

I do not have really a good answer for you on this one other than the 
fact that I have used a Live USB version of ADRIANE Knoppix which uses 
LXDE as its GUI desktop environment, and it has Orca installed by 
default for blind users. At least under the Knoppix environment many 
things seem to work pretty well.

As far as getting this up and running on, say for example, Lubuntu (the 
LXDE version of Ubuntu) I really have no clue how to do it or how it 
would work. I was actually able to get magnification working on an 
Lubuntu installation which I did for my mother-in-law last week using 
the Compiz eZoom plugin and replacing OpenBox with Compiz for window 
management, and it was fairly easy. I think that LXDE would be a great 
alternative for lower-end systems, especially if it could be completely 
accessible with Orca.

the system on which I installed Lubuntu was probably over ten years old. 
It originally ran windows XP, but them someone installed an illegal copy 
of Windows 7 onto it. My mother-in-law was tired of the spyware and the 
crippling effect of not running a legitimate version of Windows 7, so I 
installed Lubuntu onto the system and it worked wonderfully!

From my understanding, LXDE is *supposed* to be GTK-based...now mind 
you that this is from my understanding, which quite often can be 
incorrect. But as I mentioned earlier, it would be a wonderful option 
for blind users who have older computer systems.

I am sorry that I cannot be of more help. All that I can really advise 
is to give ADRIANE Knoppix a try in a live environment or in a virtual 
machine. It starts off talking and has text-based menus on screen by 
default; you have to go through and select a menu option for running a 
GUI environment.

Once again, I am sorry that I cannot be of more help to you.

On 05/10/2012 12:48 AM, simon eigeldinger vol at wrote:
> hi all,
>
> anyone know how good orca runs on lxde or xfce?
>
> How do install orca to use those desktop environments?
>
> greetings,
> simon
>
> --
> Simon Eigeldinger
> simon eigeldinger vol at
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