[NFBCS] Linux users

[Mike Gorse]

I realize that "works for me" might not be helpful, but your post is a bit 
vague, so I'm trying to confirm that you're doing what I'd expect. Anyway, 
if I do the following, with orca running:
1) Press alt-f2 to open the run dialogue.
2) type gnome-terminal, and press enter.
3) enter a command from the newly-opened terminal.
4) press the key used to read previous lines in flat review (kp-7 for the 
desktop layout, caps-lock+u for the laptop layout)
then I am able to read the output of the last command. (Still, I wouldn't 
personally use orca for heavy terminal work, but it should suffice for 
some things at least.)

You can tell orca to write debugging output to a file by creating 
$HOME/.local/share/orca/orca-customizations.py. I have the following 
there:
import orca.debug
orca.debug.debugLevel = orca.debug.LEVEL_ALL
orca.debug.debugFile = open("/home/mgorse/debug.out", "w")

If orca is, say, saying "blank" instead of reading the output of your 
command, then the debug log might give you some idea of what is going 
wrong. Anyhow, I think that orca-list is a better place for such 
discussion.


On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Bryan Duarte via NFBCS wrote:

> Thanks for your response. I guess I should have been a bit more specific. I use A Mac with voiceover and I live in the Unix command line. I have no issue using Linux command line I have an issue using the Linux desktop. I have never had any luck with Linux with Orca in the Desktop environment. I bought a HP laptop about a yer ago specifically to install Linux on it. I did and found that commands did not work and I grew frustrated. I wanted to use the command line which I was able to do but then commands to review the stdout did not work,. If you have any further feedback on what version of Linux you are running, maybe the specs of your computer, Orca config, etc I would appreciate it.
>
> Bryan Duarte
>
> PhD Computer Science Research student
> IGERT Fellow, CUbiC Lab, Arizona State University
>
>> On Aug 4, 2019, at 9:45 AM, Jack Heim <john at johnheim.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have been using linux and orca so long I cannot really tell you how it compares to jaws or nvda. I manage the research computing cluster for the Math Department at the University Of Wisconsin. I think in 2019 it is fair to say that all computational research is done on linux machines. I haven't checked for years but the last couple of times I checked, all 500 of the top 500 supercomputers were running linux. You have big problems if you are using a Windows desktop and a linux server. It is way easier just to switch to linux on your desktop. So I haven't used Windows for 20 years.
>>
>>
>> I have a Mac laptop so I can kind of compare orca and voiceOver. I am no Mac expert. But I would say orca and voiceOver are approximately equally good.
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 8/4/19 11:11 AM, Bryan Duarte via NFBCS wrote:
>>> Hey ya'll,
>>>
>>> I am sure to some this is a ridiculous question but I need to ask any way. I have been using Linux for years but mostly through an SSH connection to a server instance on either AWS or a PI or designated server in my lab. My question is does any one have any feedback on using it stand alone with Orca or some other screen reader? If so plese share your experiences.
>>> Bryan Duarte
>>>
>>> PhD Computer Science Research student
>>> IGERT Fellow, CUbiC Lab, Arizona State University
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