vm / speakup / debian?

[Austin Seraphin]

Linux uses the Orca screen reader for graphical interfaces, and they
have their own mailing list as well. I use it with the Mate desktop and
love it. Speakup works as a fallback if the GUI crashes.


On 06/19/2017 01:01 PM, Terry D. Cudney wrote:
> Hi greg,
>
>    thanks for your response.
>
>    I have debian 8, a fresh install on this laptop, with gnome. I don't think that should make much difference though.
>
>    Questions:
>
>       1) why did you choose the xfce desktop?
>       2) I have little experience with gui's in debian, everything has been speakup/cli. What screen review package do you use in a qt-based desktop?
>       3) why the virtualbox vm, over vmware/kvm/etc?
>       4) have you run a windows guest on the debian host? any caveats there?
>
>       Thanks for any pointers/suggestions you can offer.
>
>       --terry
>       
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 01:56:10PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> --> I'm running the same debian 7 guest on both a windows host and a
> --> devuan 1 host, not at the same time of course. The devuan host is running xfce, and I find myself
> --> managing the guest from the GUI mostly. The GUI is qt-based, so the
> --> accessibility is not what it would probably be if it was gtk-based,
> --> but it is still useable. Also, everything that can be done from the
> --> GUI on virtualbox can also be done through the command line. 
> --> 
> --> As for the guest itself, it's very much as if it were the host. Some
> --> usb devices passed through to the guest don't handle as fast as they
> --> would on bare metal, but that's about it. If you have more specific
> --> questions, I'll try to answer them.
> --> 
> --> Greg
> --> 
> --> 
> --> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 07:38:41PM -0400, Terry D. Cudney wrote:
> --> > Hi all,
> --> > 
> --> >    Been lurking on this list for a  long time, so here comes a question:
> --> > 
> --> >    Kirk tells me that some of you are using virtual machines with speakup.
> --> > 
> --> >    Which vm works best? kvm/qemu? vmware? virtualbox?  other?
> --> > 
> --> >    Target system is debian, on a asus laptop i7 64-bit, 8GB ram 1TB hdd.
> --> > 
> --> >    I have need to run windows 10, currently dual-booting with uefi/gpt, but want t+o run in a vm on this system.
> --> > 
> --> >    Also, curious about possibility of running android development in the same vm environment.
> --> > 
> --> >    Any suggestions/observations/experiences are very welcome.
> --> > 
> --> > TIA,
> --> >  
> --> >  --terry
> --> > 
> --> > -- 
> --> > Name: Terry D. Cudney
> --> > Phone: 289-488-4882 ext 1
> --> > E-mail: terry at cudneys.ca
> --> > _______________________________________________
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> --> > Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> --> > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> --> 
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