programs that work good with speakup

[Chris Nestrud]

I suggest bitlbee and an irc client such as irssi. This will provide
access to jabber, AIM, MSN, and a few other services. I believe that
it's possible to use the development branch of bitlbee and get support
for sending and receiving text Skype messages, but I don't know if the
entirety of the setup process is accessible with Speakup.

Chris

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:34:20AM -0800, Ralph W. Reid wrote:
> 'Good' is a relative term, so I will try to point out some
> possibilities where I might.
> 
> I do not use IM programs, but some discussions on this topic have come
> up in the past--maybe something in the archives is findable?
> 
> I do not use skype--maybe someone else can suggest something.
> 
> As for the word processor, if you want to process only words (no
> embedded graphics, etc.), a powerful text editor may handle your
> needs--perhaps the emacs editor will work for you?
> 
> I see that the sc spreadsheet calculator program is here on my
> Slackware system, and it presents a spreadsheet screen in text mode.
> I have not tinkered with sc for many years--maybe it is worth looking
> over.
> 
> As for games, if it is text games you want, some LINUX distributions
> come with the BSD games set.  If you want more, there is the
> interactive fiction archive site at
> 
> http://ifarchive.org/
> 
> You can compile various programs from this site to play all sorts of
> text adventure games, and the archive (over 3.1 GB) is available via
> rsync as follows:
> 
> mkdir ~/ifarchive
> rsync -rlptDv --bwlimit=0 --timeout=300 --partial --delete \
> ibiblio.org::pub/docs/interactive-fiction/ ~/ifarchive
> 
> For graphical games you will probably need some sort of GUI.
> 
> HTH, and have a great day.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:07:59PM -0500, josh wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Are there any good msn messenger,
> > skype
> > word processor
> > spreadsheet
> > and accessible games that work good with speakup?
> > I want to use grml since I hear that gnome takes up lots of memory and 
> > stuff.
> > 
> > Josh
> > 
> > email: jkenn337 at gmail.com
> > skype: jkenn337
> > msn: kenn6498ku at hotmail.com 
> 
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