Re: [orca-list] intro and observations on Archlinux/Mate

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

I had a few of those Dells, the mini desktop design in my case. They ran gnome2 using distros quite well. Of 
course you 
can't multitask seriously with a single core CPu, but if you kept only the apps running you had to have the 
Pentium4 
processsors were plenty fast enough at 2.8GHz. They run really hot though, even with the crazy loud fan dell 
put in them. 
Should have used larger fans to cut down on the RPMNs a bit. Those boxes were also really loud unless you ran 
them in a 
fridge. 
I even managed to run a windows XP VM as a guest OS on a Linux host.
So, my point is yeah, Mate should be fine on that hardware.
 
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 09:12:33AM -0400, Kyle wrote:
> I have a laptop with 512MB RAM and an older Sempron processor I believe
> around 2GHz, but I need to check it again to be sure of the processor
> speed. It runs MATE perfectly. I also have an even older Dell Optiplex,
> one of those large-ish ones from about 2003 or 2004 with a Pentium IV
> running at 2GHZ, and upgraded from 512MB RAM to 1GB. It also boots up
> very fast and runs MATE in a much more snappy way than I would expect. I
> also have it running on an HP box that is very similar in specs to
> yours, So your box is definitely beefy enough to run MATE with no
> trouble at all.
>
> Your specific problem is some kind of bug in Thunderbird's interaction
> with Orca. I'll explain it a little here, but I'll be sending in a more
> detailed report complete with a debug.out in a separate thread.
> Essentially, what is happening is that occasionally, Thunderbird is
> losing speech, usually while reading a message, but it also happens when
> composing a message. It seems that the recent focus mode fixes in Gecko
> applications has somewhat reduced the occurrance of this problem when
> composing a message, but it is still there. The problem is that it seems
> to happen at random. When composing a message, my work-around has been
> to attempt to close the message and then just cancel the save window.
> Your best options if Thunderbird freezes while reading a message are to
> either close the message and reopen it or to restart Orca. If it happens
> in the message list, I've been able to move to the folder tree using
> shift+tab, move down to the next folder, move back up and then tab back
> into the message list. Otherwise, restarting Orca also helps there. As I
> said, I will either send a detailed report in a separate thread, or I'll
> put it in the bug tracker. I will note here however that Thunderbird
> 24.0 may not help much, as it does have the message list sync issue. My
> work-around for that was to go to the folder list, move to another
> folder, come back to the folder I was working in and go back to the
> message list every time I deleted a message, but the upgrade certainly
> made my workflow easier in spite of the occasional loss of speech. That
> said, I was able to delete messages in a sort of batch operation by
> using the shifted arrow keys to select all the consecutive messages I
> wished to delete, deleting them all at once and then doing my little
> work-around, which caused me to have to do the work-around slightly less
> often. Hope all this helps a little, and of course, welcome to the list.
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/
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