Re: [orca-list] Mate desktop and applets

[Dave Hunt <ka1cey gmail com>]

Ctrl+Alt+Tab cycles among Desktop, Top, and Bottom panels.  The applets are on the top panel.  Since you are in Debian Testing, you may find that they just say "icon", rather than their names.  This is a known bug in GTK3, as is shipping in Debian Testing and Fedora Mate.  For accessing your network connections, you could use the program, nmtui, in a terminal, if that's easier.  Note:  these panel applets usually have a menu associated with them. Try hitting 'space' on the applet icon. 

The distro called Slint doesn't yet have this problem.  Though it uses the older GTK3, the accessibility stack is the latest and greatest.  What's more, you can use your mix of consol and gui, if you like. 

HTH,

Dave  Hunt

Sent from my Lenovo Thinkpad, running Slint GNU/Linux.  https://slint.fr

On 4/21/21 5:43 PM, Bart Bunting via orca-list wrote:

Hi,

 

I am trying to make the move back to running Linux as my primary OS with windows in a vm rather than the other way around.

 

I have Debian testing with the mate desktop installed c.urrently

 

I am as yet unable to figure out how to access the applets on the top panel for things like network manager.  Is there some keyboard shortcut I’m missing?

 

Alternatively I’m open to people’s suggestions as to which desktop environment works best currently with Orca

 

Cheers

 

Bart

 

On the whole things are working reasonably well.

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