[orca-list] Orca, on Linux, on Chromebooks

[Devin Prater <r d t prater gmail com>]

Hi all. I'm just letting anyone who doesn't know yet that Orca can be used to use GUI apps in Linux containers (Debian (Samuel Thibalt would probably like that)) on a Chromebook. Of course, Orca works best when an external keyboard with an Insert key, but for simple app navigation, it works very well. A few notes and issues:

* Orca doesn't like not having a window manager to grab onto. So any window switching can be rather confusing to it. Switching tabs in a window is almost impossible without closing the current window.

* Sound is chopped off at the first split second of audio, so that "dash" become "ash." I might be able to increase Pulse/ALSA's buffer size and fix that, but it makes reading Markdown slightly treacherous.

* I've not yet tried running Firefox on a Chromebook but yeah that'd be rather funny.

* Audiogames run under wine work, and don't seem to have the audio cutout issues. Interesting. Maybe it's just programs that output directly through ALSA? But that doesn't explain Orca's issues since it I think uses SPD and that should be using Pulse. Right?

Devin Prater

r d t prater gmail com