Re: [orca-list] updates on Linux adventures

[Nick Wood <nick microlitesoftware co uk>]

Hi,

I've never had to unmute or alter the volume with Fedora - the installer 
has always come up with the volume already set.
(Tested with Fedora 22 and 23)

Just hit Alt+Super+S and Orca should fire up.

Fedora has no startup sound (like the drums in Ubuntu) so if you have no 
vision at all you won't know when the desktop has booted.

I tend to count to 3 minutes after booting the Fedora USB image before 
doing the Alt+Super+S shortcut, but your own mileage may vary depending 
on the speed of your hardware.
(I suspect its ready long before the 3 minutes - but that figure works 
for me so that's what I've stuck with)

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Nick



On 04/06/16 17:47, Devin Prater wrote:
> Hi all. Last night, I got Brltty working within talking arch. I played around with it and learned to use it, 
> mo'£y. Now that I have my toe in the door, I'd like to learn the GUI desktops. My Debean installation runs 
> the Debean desktop environment. My main problem right now is that most of the installers I've tried start 
> with volume muted, but with GUI, we don't have alsamixer, at least not a command away. I tried Fedora, both 
> 23 and 24 beta, and tried all function keys, as I heard media keys can be used to raise the volume, but 
> nothing so far. I tried looking up, using differing terms, volume shortcut keys, hotkeys, all that. I'm just 
> about Googled out, so I need some help. Is there a nonvisual way to activate the volume menu in the Fedora 
> installer? I've also downloaded Trisquel, but with only free software, I'm not so sure it'd be all that good. 
> Besides that, it was last revised, at least in release, a good 2 years ago, so I think Fedora will be the 
> distro of choice, if only I can get it installed.
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