Re: [orca-list] orca command-line configuration question, some success!

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

Hi Didier,
Thanks.
> From what you say, there must still be something wrong with my mate 
installation.
In the old Orca/gnome setup I had before, alt-f1 did bring up a menu, but 
now, I just get something like "window" spoken.
I am not at the machine now, so cannot verify exactly.
Thanks for the pointers.
Regards, Willem


On Thu, 2 May 2019, Didier Spaier wrote:

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>
> Hello Peter,
>
> for orca, a good way to learn is to use he integrated learning mode.
>
> Just press Orca+h and you will be guided.
>
> In Mate, Alt+F1 should raise the menu, from which you can navigate using the arrow keys.
>
> Other than that, it's hard  to guide you as the key bindings for Mate depend on the way it is configured.
>
> But you can know what they are (and change them) pressing Alt+F2 then typing: mate-keybinding-properties, 
> confirming with Enter and using the arrow keys to navigate in the properties' menu.
>
> You can also type the commands in mate-terminal, that you can raise pressing Alt+F2 then typing 
> mate-terminal, or from the menu.
>
> Also, most Mate graphical components have an associated help, if yelp is installed: then you will find the 
> Help button pressing Tab several times.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Didier
>
> On 02/05/2019 15:05, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > I now seem to have orca coming up each time I run startx from the user I created for experimentation.
> > Although somewhat by accident, I do not have a gui login coming up at boot, which is actually what I prefer.
> > So I believe I have mate installed as the desktop for this gui user of mine.  It does not say a lot, but I 
> > once succeeded to get to a place where I could type a command by pressing alt-f2.
> > I tried firefox and could get to a web site.
> > As you can gather, I think since the very old versions of Orca/desktops I used, things have changed a lot.
> >
> > I do not have to use mate, but since that is what I seem to have going now, I need some tutorial spesific to 
> > orca use with mate, since I do not know either of the two.
> >
> > I had a look at the orca manual, but what I saw looks like it assumes that one knows how to operate the 
> > desktop and goes into things like navigating documents etc.
> >
> > Any pointers, even just to the relevant section of the orca manual, would be welcome.
> > Kind regards, Willem
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2 May 2019, Peter Vágner wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Sorry for adding more confusion.
> > > So on slint no pulseaudio is ever used until some one directly or indirectly inwokes it.
> > >
> > > And alsa is used by default all the time except of the case when pulse audio is started. If pulseaudio is 
> > > started then its alsa emulation is used not to break alsa dependant apps in such a way that they can play 
> > > sound simultaneously.
> > >
> > > This sounds awesome and theoretically speaking might help hardcore alsa users like Janina to live a bit 
> > > better in the situations where pulseaudio is difficult to avoid entirely.
> > >
> > > Greetings
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > >
> > > Dňa May 2, 2019 12:09:23 PM UTC používateľ Didier Spaier <didier slint fr> napísal:
> > > > Correction: instead of the last line, please read:
> > > > hardware audio device, alsa drivers, alsa app.
> > > >
> > > > On 02/05/2019 13:51, Didier Spaier wrote:
> > > > > So, in case of a "real" alsa app, the chain is rather:
> > > > > hardware audio device, alsa app.
> > >
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