Re: [orca-list] Any other distros lighter than ubuntu mate?

[Alexandro Jurgensen <voiceovertrainer me com>]

Hello,

This is very interesting, thank you. I’ve checked out flow and it looks promising. Have you ever tried Orca 
with Openbox?

Warm regards,
Alex

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> On Jan 7, 2021, at 11:24 AM, Mewtamer via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:
>
> I don't think a window manager is strictly required if you just want
> to run a single GUI application with Orca like a Kiosk... that said, I
> remember reading somewhere that attempting to do this will render
> additional windows(e.g. open and save file dialog boxes, warning
> dialogs, etc.) spawned by the main GUI app to be inaccessible.
>
> That said, I'm running Orca with Firefox with essentially nothing to
> support thembut:
> xserver-xorg-core
> xserver-xorg-input-evdev
> xserver-xorg-video-vesa
> xserver-xorg-legacy
> xinit
> flwm(smallest window manager I've tried that worked as well as any
> heavier wm I've tried).
>
> And it's possible that if I understood what the script my distro ships
> to launch Firefox with Orca in a stripped down xserver was doing, I
> might be able to swap the vesa driver for the dummy video driver and
> ditch legacy, but the most I've figured out is how todrop down to the
> above from xserver-xorg, xserver-xorg-input-all, and
> xserver-xorg-video-all and how to switch from compiz to the window
> manager of my choice.
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