no panels, can't remember about desktop icons. Mate is a lot heavier than lxde, but light compared with unity or kde, and much cpu less intensive than gnome3 and very accessible with a few glitches. XFCE may be a bit better than lxde, but very similar, and if you can do with out accessible panels and can do with out an organized apps menu you can go super lightweight with fluxbox. In fluxbox assign keuyboard shortcuts to the programs you use most, launch caja to get desktop icons, (use the -n option when auto starting it in the fluxbox start-up file), and assign a key to open the applications dir in /usr/share to get a way to launch any app you don't have a shortcut for and do not remember exact name for. Also Stormdragon wrote a little script to replace the run box app that's not accessible for fluxbox, ratpoison and similar. I don't have his original, but do have my slightly hacked version of this I can send, or look in archives for the url to get his version. Build from source if not able to get latest fluxbox on your debian based distro, it's in repos for arch. I can help more with the fluxbox configuration if you are interested, and maybe it'll get better out of the box with in a reasonable time frame, some dev interest. OAll of the above mentioned options require exporting gtk modules and setting qt accessiblity at least as well as a couple things for gconf for mate anyway, same gets stuff working for fluxbox. I can send you some links and or notes later if you need. -- B.H. There are a couple more hacks for fluxbox. On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 08:06:43AM -0700, austinAustin quesada wrote:
Hi list. Was just wondering if the light-weight LXDE environment is accessible using orca? I have some older machines laying around that might benefit from a debian or arch install with LXDE. If it's not particularly accessible, could anyone advise on another light-weight desktop? Thanks for any feedback. _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
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