Re: [orca-list] New ubuntu install

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

Get speechd-up or espeakup so you can use speakup in consoles.
If you have a 64bit installation then get the 32bit qt-at-spi package in addition to the normal 64bit 
qt-atj-spi for the 64bit  system. That will let 
you use skype, and maybe some other 32bit only qt using software.
Mostly beyond this it depends on what you do with you computer, and experimentingwith programs to see which 
you prefer. 
There are a number of good accessible media players, but some have some issues that make them a bit less than 
ideal with or a. I find myself mostly 
using vlc and mplayer or mplayer2 using the gnome-mplayer front end in the GUI. Audacious is small and seems 
pretty flexible,  but although I've never 
really had any complaints about it I've never used it much. 
Totem, called videos in the program listings i.e. apps menus , does less than it used to a couple of years 
ago, and I prefered its older interfaces, but 
is still very reliable.  I've used quite a few more. Rhythmbox has always had some issues both positive and 
negative, banshee tends t ave less than 
consistent behavior with orca but can do a lot, one I've not used much that may be pretty good is called 
deadbeef, exaile  went rogue  on me and stuck 
on mp3 frames sometimes, one of these blowing out one of my netbook's speakers/never used it again after that 
although others seem to use it with no 
such nastiness; and there are others I've used that work perfectly with orca that I'm not mentioning. I'd 
probably say VLC is a good choice for anyone 
as it is so flexible from both the command line and the GUI. You may need to specify the vlx-nox package 
along with vlc when installing to get the full 
CLI funconality. I'm still not completely decided, but am pretty sure that mplayer2 is a better bet than the 
original mplayer. 
There are several commandline only players that are popular and good if you are in to scripting. 
If you do research, write school or work papers or reports, translate or just read and like words then I'd 
install dictd and some of the available 
dictionary databases and translaters for it. I always get quite a few dictionaries that work with this 
framework
dict-devil dict dict-elements dictfmt dict-foldoc dict-gcide dict-jargon dict-vera dict-wn 
dict-freedict-eng-spa dict-freedict-spa-eng
dict-freedict-eng-lat dict-bouvier dict-freedict-eng-fra
for example. There are packages for other languages and a thesaurus. Just type a word in to a terminal or 
console, e.g. dict computer and you get a list  
of definitions and translations for coomputer. If you get several databases then you should usually use dict 
with a pager like less, e.g. dict 
computer|less
Personally I use a lot of custom keyboard shortcuts, but some people don't. I fiind it well worth the time to 
set them up for the programs I use most 
and to open a couple of folders I often need to access that have longer paths.
Some browser extensions are important to me, e.g. webvisum to solve captchas, (firefox only), lastpass to 
store all my passwords encrypted for access 
with any popular GUI browser, for our purposes firefox and google-chroome if you install it which I always 
do. You must have the chromevox extension to 
use chrome as it does not work with orca.
Oh, make sure you have enough codecs for you media files. mp3s and many other popular formats are not 
playable by default unless you selected the 
install nonfree extras item duriing the initial installation. 
Do a quuick google for your specific Ubuntu version to see what the codec packs are called as they have 
changed slightly between versions over the 
years. I think there is still one called ubuntu-nonfree-extras that includes soome of the important ones as 
well as a few popular fonts. You may run in 
to situations where you need to grab another codec later on depending on what programs you use, especially if 
you convert from one media format to 
another, and sometimes those situations can get complicated as one codec can not be installed at the same 
time as another, but if you just play ppopular 
formats then you should not get in to these situations often if at ever.
Again, we can recommend a program for a specific task or type of task, or some add on or configuration it 
needs, but with out knowing what you do and do 
not do with your computer it is hard to know where to start and when to stop. 


 
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  Marvin Rush wrote:
Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:35:41AM -0600

> What things should i change in ubuntu. I am using orca with ubuntu. I did not install with speech someone 
> else did the install the only thing i have done so far is configure orca to what i like. 
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