Re: [orca-list] New ubuntu install

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

FYI, I'm running Orca 3.18.2 on my Ubuntu 14.04 system.

On 26/01/16 00:59, mohammad suliman wrote:
>                  hi,
>
> a general tip for Ubuntu users is to change swappiness from 60% to 90%.
> 60% is the default, but for desktop users it is not recommended. this
> will improve your system speed significantly with multi tasking. many
> articles on Google ex plane how to do this, if you need more help with
> that, let me know. be careful thou when following the steps, I think a
> mistake could damage your system.
> thanks for the steps to update orca to latest version! I am running
> Ubuntu 14.04 on a virtual machine with gnome 3.10. according to Google,
> gnome on this system can't be updated, or updating is not recommended.
> so, I thought that i will remain with orca 3.10.
> thanks,
> Mohammad
>
> On 1/24/2016 8:22 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> > 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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