[orca-list] luciano in answer to your question about vms

[Majid HUSSAIN <mhussaincov googlemail com>]

hi there luciano,
you can indeed run vms from inside linux you can download a program
called vmware player.
vmware is accessable inside linux
I hope this helps!
Majid
as for yoour orca not talking, try sudo orca -t
this resetts orca to default settings it may or may not assist you.
kind regards
Majid Hussain

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> Subject: [orca-list] Orca not speaking Ubuntu ppc 12.04
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> hello running Ubuntu PPC 12.04 on a late 2004 iBook G4 1.2GHZ and 1.25GB
> Ram, 30GB HDD.
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> system runs great, functions great, even has sound and wifi, but orca,
> doesn't speak.
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> The settings look good, speech dispatcher is selected, espeak is selected
> and all the volumes are up and unmuted, I even did a sound test. but even
> after confirming all settings in orca prefs I still have no speech. even
> with the eyes of my daughter telling me what is on the screen, she says,
> orca itself is activated but it just doesn't talk. she can see the about,
> prefs, help buttons and the title orca screen reader.
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> Any advice will be helpful.
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> From: luciano de souza <luchyanus gmail com>
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> Subject: [orca-list] Manjaro, Fedora and virtual mashine managers
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> Hello all,
>
> A previous message has spoken someting about Manjaro. As far as know,
> Manjaro is a Arch Linux based distro optimized for blind users. If I
> am right, Manjaro wasn't available to download yet, since developers
> was finishing its preparatives. My first question is if Manjaro is
> already available.
>
> The second question is about Fedora. I have tried install it once. The
> installer is very accessible. I suppose I am successful in which
> concernes the instalation. However, at the first boot, when system
> finishes the first loading, I couldn't listen to the Orca's voice. Is
> there some guide or some special tips for install Fedora?
>
> I am so sad with Unity. I am using Ubuntu 13.04. It's not easy to
> navigate. I can't change from a Nautilus window to another Nautilus
> window. Only one window can be opened. If I access a folder, the
> current window is updated to the new path, even though I try to open a
> new window. As a result, in the alt+tab order, I have never found two
> windows of Nautilus. It's really something misleading and
> unconfortable.
>
> My third question is about virtual mashines. Is there a way to
> accessibly install it on Linux? which virtual mashine manager is
> recommended? With ubuntu 13.04 previously installed under which VM
> will run, will I able to get the minimum of performance to use a
> virtualized system? If it was possible, I would like to test a system
> before definitively install it on phisical mashine.
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> Regards,
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> Luciano de Souza
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