Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp

[Alex Snow]

you must not ave been inside X...try running firefox from the run 
dialog in Gnome.
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 10:19:17PM +0330, Parham wrote:
> Ok the problem with speech is now fixed. The only problem is that I have no 
> idea what programs I can run. How can I get things I can run?
> FOr example I typed "firefox" and it said, "cannot open display" or such 
> thing.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples at aim.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 10:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp
> 
> 
> >I have used the free vmware server at www.vmware.com, I just mentioned
> > that there may be others as some people prefer to use open source
> > software (as you have greater rights with open source software).
> >
> > If you use vmware, I think most of it is quite self explanatrary,
> > download the windows version (I assume you will want to run this under
> > windows) install, load vmware, create a new hardware configuration (not
> > quite sure from memory what vmware calls this), choose the configuration
> > options you want from the screens that come up, modify and add extra
> > hardware if you want it (things like USB ports, serial ports, audio,
> > etc), make sure that configuration boots from CD , insert CD and then
> > get vmware to start the virtual machine and continue as if you were
> > running Linux directly on the computer (you may need to tell vmware to
> > grab keyboard input, I think it is ctrl+shift+g). Sorry those aren't
> > very specific, but I am doing this by memory, and I think the menu items
> > are enough (let us know if you have trouble and hopefully someone will
> > know the specific answer).
> >
> > From
> > Michael Whapples
> > On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 20:33 +0330, Parham wrote:
> >> The thing is that which one of these emulators should I get? And how can 
> >> I
> >> install Linux on one?
> >> Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
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