Speakup and phoebe

[Lorenzo Prince]

Well, there are screen readers for x-windows, and also specifically for
gnome, but they are in early development and are not production quality at
this point.  However, now that I am able to actually run x-windows, I
would like to try some or all of these programs.

Lorenzo

E Pluribus Unix

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Juan Hernandez wrote:

> people can now use x-windows???
>
>
>    How???
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lorenzo Prince" <lorenzo at princenet.sytes.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 11:03 AM
> Subject: Re: Speakup and phoebe
>
>
> > So how do I get Gnome to work on my Slackware 9.0 system?  When I type
> > 'gdm' which I thought was the command to start Gnome, it does nothing.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lorenzo
> >
> > E Pluribus Unix
> >
> > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Adam Myrow wrote:
> >
> > > So, why did Redhat choose to drop Speakup from their next version?  It
> > > sounds like maybe somebody didn't like the modified kernel.  So, they
> > > should have done like Slackware and gave the user a choice of a
> > > Speakup-enabled kernel or not.  BTW, Slackware 9.0 just came out and has
> > > Gnome 2.2 with accessibility plug-ins, and still supports Speakup.  It
> is
> > > down to a boot disk and two root disks to install, but also has a third
> > > option which is some sort of boot manager on a separate disk that will
> > > supposedly boot a CDROM even on computers that otherwise can't boot one.
> > > I don't know if this will speak or not, but it sure sounds interesting.
> I
> > > sure hope Redhat reconsiders dropping Speakup as it is a major step in
> the
> > > wrong direction.
> > >
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