Re: [orca-list] Knoppix and Mate desktop

[Edhoari Setiyoso <edhoari s gmail com>]

If you wish to use Mate desktop without the hassle of setting up accessibility I recommend Debian. I believe 
it should've solve your problems.
I use one with Mate desktop and it works really well. It never gave me any problems.
Installation is a breeze.
Also Knoppix is Debian based.

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/buster_di_rc1-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/

Regards

Mgr. Janusz Chmiel via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> writes:

> Dear advanced users and developers,
>     Who of us could help Me to get Mate desktop environment to work with latest Knoppix?
> My motivations are:
> 1. I have stopped to have The patience with Pulseaudio, Espeak ENG Speech-dispatcher
> Espeak driver. I have done my best to solve The issues with Espeak bad sound output, but
> really, I can not spend The rest of my life to find The solutions. Mbrola do not cause those
> sounds, but Czech speech databases for Mbrola are very small so speech output quality is
> much more worst than when using some German voices for Mbrola. 
> Knoppix is being configured so ALSA is being used by Speech-dispatcher and Espeak work
> perfectly even after 20 hours of continuous or random activity with Orca or Espeak.
> Mr Professor Klaus Knopper is one of The Linux elite programmers around The world so I
> have decided that I will give his distribution The chance.
> I have more informatics reasons than The presence of preconfigured ALSA sound output.
> System can be remastered. It is possible to use persistent setting file, overlay file or
> standalone overlay partition. So Mr Professor Klaus Knopper has done his best to
> incorporate The best Linux kernel features to create fully usable portable operating
> system. 
> Sure! Advanced users and developers can do that on every other Linux distribution. But to
> be honest, I did not known about special kernel parameters and how to use them. And
> scripts of Knoppix are designed so user can use it from X session by using 
> dialog
> Linux app, it is second GTK based dialog system. Zenity is The next. Knoppix scripts are
> using also Dialog system so really, it is perfectly possible to run Knoppix scripts from
> terminal.
> My problems.
> 1. How to manage so Speech-dispatcher will work also when mate-session is active?How
> to initialize Mate desktop from Knoppix so also CTRL+ALT+d will work.
> If I will type mate-session
> at The Bash shell prompt, I will got some run-time error with numbers.
> but when I will type
> xinit mate-session
> Mate will be initialized. But something unsoft will prevent Me from using
> Speech-dispatcher with Orca. Mate volume monitor will perfectly work, even build in
> sound effects are working.
> What would I have to do so Speech-dispatcher will also send data to espeak and socket
> problem will stop to be occurred?
> How to correctly initialize mate-session without xinit, since this approach is very probably
> not good approach?


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Edhoari Setiyoso