Re: [orca-list] please help a newby make an install of ubuntu 12.10 more accessible

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Rusty,

No problem. Unity isn't actually that bad once you know the hot keys.
Remember you are a newbie, as you mentioned, and it would probably
help if you knew where to go to access things. There are no icons on
your desktop, as you discovered, and the main places you need to go
are the launcher and the top panel.

To go to the Launcher press alt+f1. This is a cross between the
Windows Start Menu and the Taskbar as on Ubuntu apps that a running
will show up here as well as apps you pin to the launcher to launch.
You'll find most of the programs you need already have launchers on
the Launcher such as Firefox, Libreoffice,, Gnome Terminal, etc.
That's the first thing you need to know.

The second is the Unity top panel. This can be accessed with alt+f10.
This has a number of pull down menus to access your clock, power
status, to logout or shutdown the system, system settings, manage
updates, and other things. So this is the cecond thing you need to
know about the Unity desktop in order to access things. Once you know
these two things you can actually begin using Linux with Unity if you
want.

To run Gnome Terminal you have to ways of doing that. One you can do
alt+f1 and find it on the Unity Launcher. The other is you can do
alt+f2 and type gnome-terminal and hit enter to bring it up.


To logout you have to press alt+f10 to go to your top panel, find the
submenu with the logout option, and logout. If LightDM doesn't come up
with speech simply press control+s to bring up Orca and use it to
configure your default desktop, language, etc under sessions before
logging back in.

Cheers!






On 5/14/13, Rusty Perez <rustys lists gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> Ok, I've upgraded to ubuntu 13.4 the desktop seems nearly completely
> unaccessible. It says 0 icons, and nothing happens when I press tab or
> anything.
> So, obviously, I need to get the gnome desktop, and configure it as defalt.
> First, how do I run the gnome terminal? I think I press f2 then just
> type gnome-terminal
>
> also, will this all speak to me via orca?
> then, once I've upgraded the gnome desktop via your commands,
> how do I log off and log back in to make the gnome desktop defalt?
>
> i told you, I am a way newby.
>
> thanks so much!!!
> Rusty