[orca-list] Panels, (systryish applets), LXDE/Openbox menu accessibility

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

For the record I use  this type of set-up as I ran arch as a CLI only OS for a while before even installing a 
GUI on this 
netbook, and I still boot first in to a bash shell and start a graphical desktop invironment with startx when 
and if I 
need it. 
For a few months I manually selected my network from the wifi-menu when not using an ethernet connection. 
Then I enabled a 
couple of bits so that I would auto connect to the wlans I'd configured. 
It works very well. I must say that RAM usage jumped way up when I configured netctl to auto connect, but 
even on the 
netbook it doesn't really matter. The one detail that I have is the somewhat unpredictable reading of 
available networks 
if manually connecting. Usually I'm connection to the network with the strongest signal, and that's shown at 
the beginning 
of the list, but if I want to pick a network farther down the list a bit of trial and error is often, I'd say 
usually 
involved.
I've not tried using wifi-menu in a terminal emulator with orca. Does this give better results than using 
speakup in a  VT 
console?
Thanks,
--
B.H.
      

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:54:00AM -0400, D. A. H. wrote:
> As far as I know, LXPanel is still inaccessible.  Since you are using Arch,
> would you consider using netctl instead of network manager?  You could then
> use the ncurses ui thing called wifi-menu to connect to wifi points and
> profiles for your wired connections.  Before starting the netctl service,
> you'll need to stop the networkmanager service.
>
>
>
> HTH,
>
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On 06/25/2014 10:47 AM, Mike Ray wrote:
> > 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.
>
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