questions about text-based e-mail

[Steve Holmes]

Yeah, because speakupconf isn't run every time you switch consoles; I
suppose if you ran it each time and could hack it to detect what was
running at the time, just run it but then again, if you are in an
application, there would be no way you could run speakupconf while
that app is runnning.

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:06:30AM -0700, Gaijin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 02:26:44PM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> > Call me simplistic but why can't you have an alias to load a
> > specific set of configuration data when you launch mutt?
> 
> 	Mostly because speakupconf doesn't appear to load specified 
> configuration files, as far as I can tell from the man page.
> 
> 
> 
> > It won't help you on other virtual consoles however having speakup
> > track which console you are on and pull settings
> 
> 	I don't worry, and can certainly live with that.  When I'm doing 
> mail, I'm usually not doing anything else, except maybe coppying a URL 
> or two to another console for later visiting.  I still have no 
> particular need to use Orca as yet.  It's still clunky, even on a 24G 
> quad-core system with 3Gs/sec SATA hard drives. <shrugs> Told those guys 
> months ago that you don't chase the dog with a pooper-scooper when 
> creating an accessibility standard in Linux and got drummed out of the 
> list.  I'll stay with NVDA and windows when I need a GUI.
> 
> Michael
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