Re: [orca-list] LXDE/Openbox menu accessibility

[Mike Ray <mike raspberryvi org>]

We're getting a bit off-topic here so I'll be brief.

I have come to something of a grinding halt with lxde at the moment
because I can't find a way to get the sys tray, which I think is on the
bottom panel, although I might be wrong as I don't really either
understand or like panels, to take keyboard focus.  So I can find no way
of opening the network manager applet.  I could use the nmcli console
portion of network-manager but it would be nice to have a GUI thingy.

But I have got as far as writing a script to complete the installation
of Chris's talking Arch (all the bits after arch-chroot), and another
script which does the lxde install.

Mike


On 25/06/2014 14:16, Alex Midence wrote:
> I don't use LXDE so, take this with the proper grain of salt but, couldn't
> you use different virtual desktops to manage how many applications you
> switch between?  Assume you will have 15 applications open at any given
> time.  You can use three virtual desktops and organize them according to
> function i.e. have the internet apps like your browser, e-mail and chat
> sessions open in one virtual desktop, your office productivity stuff like
> Calc, Gedit and writer on another one, your music player, file manager and
> calendar application on the third one and so forth and so on.  Will
> alt+escape restrict itself to your current virtual desktop in LXDE or will
> it switch across them all?
>
> Alex M
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Jakob
> Herrmann
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 7:59 AM
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] LXDE/Openbox menu accessibility
>
> Hi,
>
> your posts just made me try LXDE/Openbox again after more than 1 year
> as it
> seems to be the more appropriate lightweight alternative than XFCE
> (development state...). In general, everything works fine on my Arch
> box and
> I am able to access applications and menus. However, I am having still the
> core problem that nothing is spoken or displayed while switching between
> windows with alt+tab (or backwards). I found out that you can also switch
> using alt+esc which is acceptable as workaround for me, but this seems to
> switch more or less randomly and takes more time to find the right tab if
> thousands of things are opened up. How do you deal with this issue?
>
> Cheers,
> Jakob
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Michael A. Ray
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Witley, Surrey, South-east UK

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