Re: [orca-list] If you are successfully using a desktop environment with Braille please contact me offline.

[Tom Masterson <kd7cyu gmail com>]

Hi John

I am answering you on list because I feel the discussion may need to be 
here."

I am using orca 3.28.0 (I have not gotten master to build under Ubuntu 
18.04) and primarily mate if I use a desktop at all.  I by far prefer just 
working at the console and in fact have my system setup so that it soes 
not even run a desktop unless I start one"""""".""  I am by preference a 
braille user and would like to run without speech at all.  However I have 
found that at least in mate and gnome shell as well there are many 
occasions where something will be spoken but not show up on my display. 
THis happens in the menus (alt+f1) and in firefox.  Probably elsewhere as 
well but those are the primary places I work.  This has been true for 
quite a while but I have lived with it because I just don't go there very 
often but it feels kinda like braille is definitely an afterthought with 
orca.  I would be happy to look further if someone can tell me how to 
build orca master under Ubuntu 18.04.

Tom

On Wed, 22 Apr 2020, John J. Boyer wrote:

> My experience has simply been frustrating. Things just don't work.
>
> John
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