On March 4, 2013, Karen Lewellen wrote: Still if elinks and mplayer exist ported for DOS, why go through > the extreme mayhem of finding someone local enough to learn speakup > and ora and so forth to teach me in the first place? Well, to be able to use Linux which excels at multi-tasking. So even on the console (without a GUI or Orca), you can run yasr/speakup to read the screen, but then use either GNU "screen" or "tmux" to run multiple virtual terminals within that one yasr/speakup session. Thus you can be browsing with lynx in one process (or more), reading email in another, playing music in another, have your audio-mixer up all the time in another (allowing you to adjust the audio on the fly while other stuff is running), managing files in yet another, etc. I remember using DOS and having various TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) programs to fake multi-tasking but they never worked very well for me. The virtual terminals are cheaply created, usually with the tmux/screen prefix key followed by "c" (for "create"). You can then switch between the virtual terminals by using the tmux/screen prefix key followed either by "n" (next) or "p" (previous) or by directly jumping to the numbered window with the corresponding number key. In both tmux and screen, the key mappings are also configurable. An added benefit of using tmux/screen is that the sessions can be detached and then reconnected-to, even from another computer. So you might be downstairs working on the Linux box, then go upstairs to your workhorse machine and telnet/ssh into your Linux box and instruct it to reattach to the session and you can pick up right where you left off. All without losing any of your work or running programs. -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list