Re: [orca-list] Do I always need a graphical server/interface?

["D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea arrl net>]

Rusty,

There is a project that runs firefox so that it does not need X server running and outputs to the command line. 

It is called clifox.  It is a python interface to firefox to get it to work in a console or command line environment.

If possible, please see if any of you can help develop this so that it can be packaged in major distributions of Linux in the near future.

For more information, please subscribe to the

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mailing list by going to:

http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wb

This is the web browser we have all been waiting for and the final missing link to the blind being equal to the sighted in their computer use.  They just need some help.

It looks like the perfect browser for me.

Best wishes,

David

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Julien Claassen <julien mail upb de> wrote:

Hello Rusty!
  OK, so you know, that Orca requires the GNOME environment, but you have BRLTTY, which works just fine on the commandline and you could also use speakup, which is a screenreader for the console. There is also the espeakup package, which uses the espeak Text To Speech engine, which you might have heard in a screenreader like NVDA.
  Firefox and nautilus need the desktop as well, for they are purely graphical programs. I mean, they are only meant for the graphical environment.
  But as far as I know, nautilus is mainly the file browser. So you can perform all of its duties on the commandline. Copying, moving, renaming, viewing and search your filesystem. There are a few commands, which you'd need to know, but it's possible and it's rather fast, once you get used to it. Faster in cases than on a desktop.
  Firefox is a browser right? If so, you can have a sort of a substitute on the commandline. But none of the commandline browsers support _javascript_. It can be a bugger, if you have your typical sites and they use _javascript_. But for a quick google search, Wikipedia lookup or similar you might just get by nicely with links2 or elinks (which support a LITTLE _javascript_).
  Warm regards
        Julien

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