speakup and ubuntu

Marcel Oats moats at orcon.net.nz
Mon Dec 4 00:35:38 EST 2006


You should be able to stop X with the command gdm-stop.
It's a script I think.
Handy things scripts?
At 12:09 PM 4/12/2006, you wrote:
>You may as well just put runlevel 3 as your default in /etc/inittab. Then
>just run startx (I think) to run the GUI, and use control+alt+f1 to switch
>to the first console. X runs on tty7, so just use altf7 to run the gui
>console. DOn't know how you'd stop it. Run `init 3` I imagine.
>
>HTH,
>
>Chris Norman
><!-- cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk -->
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Danny Crone" <dannyboy at pobox.com>
>To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 5:23 AM
>Subject: Re: speakup and ubuntu
>
>
> > Does ubuntu have a file I can edit, so the gui only runs when I need it?
> > If so, would startx run the gui?
> > How would the gui be stopped?
> >
> > On Dec 1, 2006, at 8:30 PM, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> >
> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> >> While you're still in graphical mode, press the kill speakup key
> >> next to
> >> the scroll lock to the right of f12.  All other consoles will work
> >> correctly at that point.
> >>
> >> Lorenzo
> >> - --
> >> I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse.
> >> - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment)
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