Hi John, When you are in the application set things the way you want them. Then press the right thumb key and spacebar. release them and within 5 seconds press the easy access bar all the way down. This saves your settings for that application. You do not need to be root to save settings. If you change settings in the setup menus, either escape until you get prompted to save changes or just enter control-q and you will be prompted to save changes. Type a y and wait about 20 seconds. Tommy -----Original Message----- From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 12:05 AM To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: Re: Experiences with Elba Tommy, So how do I change the settings for individual applications? When I go to tools and then setup, I get the setup menu and submenus, but there is no hint of setting things individually for different applications. The manual says nothing about this. The Elba does have the su command, but the manual helpfully does not give the default password. I really think I have to be root for changes in setup to stick. Thanks, John On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:38:16PM -0600, Tommy Craig wrote: > Hi John, > > The address for the Elba group is: > > Elba-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Please note that the e in Elba is capitolized. The reason that speech > doesn't stay of is that each application saves it's settings > separately. This is so you can have grade 2 in one application and not > in another one or speech on in one application and not in the others. > You can set items in the control center and they should stick unless > you override them in an application. > > You can enter all the setup menus by typing t for tools and then s > for setup. Under this menu you have a number of submenus for setting > speech, braille, networking and much more. > > Tommy > > > -----Original Message----- > From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of John J. Boyer > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:10 PM > To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Experiences with Elba > > > The Elba is indeed an interesting Linux Braille PDA. However, it takes > some getting used to. So far, I haven't been able to set it to my > preferences. In particular, I can't get it to stop talking. This is > very irritating, since even with my cochlear implant turned off i can > feel the vibrations. Also, if I switch it to Grade 2, it promptly goes > back to computer braille when I change to a different application. I've > tried turning off speech in the setup application numerous times, with > no result. Maybe I have to be root to change the defaults, but there is > no mention of this in the manual. > > I haven't been able to subscribe to the Elba mailing list. The address > given here a few days ago doesn't seem to work. > > With all that, the Elba has a nice user interface. It is a good > example > of how the usability generally associated with a GUI can be built into a > text-mode interface. > > John > > -- > John J. boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer Computers to > Help People, Inc. www.chpi.org 6033 Monona Drive, suite 205; Madison, WI > 53716 > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- John J. boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer Computers to Help People, Inc. www.chpi.org 6033 Monona Drive, suite 205; Madison, WI 53716 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list