No, it isn't like debian. When you run a boot up of slint, slint comes
up talking. You press s once speech starts to continue to have slint
speaking. Failure to press s turns speech off. I've done testing on
release candidate versions of slint before this one got released and
I've never seen anything in my life and I had no trouble getting slint
installed so I could use it afterwards.
On Mon, 25 Dec 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 02:52:55
From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Announce: Slint64-14.2.1 is released.
Hi,
I read the manual and can't find info on how to use it with speakup/espeak.
Could you pinpoint me on how to enable speech during installation? I think
this should be possible just like with debian installer.
On 21-Dec-17 5:50 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Slint64-14.2.1 is released!
As a reminder Slint is a Linux distribution based on Slackware.
INSTALLATION
The ISO image for Slint64-14.2.1 is provided on sourceforge.net:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/slint/files/14.2.1/
To know how to use this ISO image, read:
http://slint.fr/wiki/en/installation
Just substitute this ISO's file name to the one indicated there.
Specific instructions for visually impaired users are provided in:
http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2.1/ACCESSIBILITY
Slint can be installed and used without help from a sighted person,
provided that the computer be set to boot from the installation media,
DVD or USB stick.
To update your system after installation, run as as root these commands:
slapt-get --add-keys
slapt-get --update
slapt-get --upgrade -s # to check for available updates.
slapt-get --upgrade # to actually apply the updates.
FEATURES
MATE 1.18 is included, as well as Xfce, LXDE and KDE (optional) and
lighter ones like blackbox and fluxbox.
Slint64-4.2 is accessible to visually impaired users: it can be
installed and used with speech and/or Braille both in text mode and in
several graphical environments including of course MATE.
brltty is included with brlapi to use your braille device in graphical
environments through orca.
espeakup provides speech in text mode, orca in graphical environments.
The installation of KDE is optional. If KDE is installed, to avoid
cluttering the application menus of other graphical environments the
admin can just type hide-kde-apps: the menu entry of KDE apps will
then appear only in the menu entry of KDE. This can be reverted typing
show-kde-apps.
The lightdm and gdm2 graphical login managers are included, both can
speak with orca.
To cope with the many graphical environments and login managers and
alleviate the need of manually editing configuration files, several new
utilities are provided:
* orca-on ad orca-off allow each user to enable or disable speech and/or
braille in graphical environments for oneself.
* session-chooser allows a user to set the default graphical session for
oneself, among those available. This can be done by root for a regular
user with setsession.
* login-chooser allows the admin to set the login manager, either text
(the users can then after login start a graphical session typing
startx) or graphical (among lightdm, lxdm, gdm and kdm) and decide to
have speech or not for login, in text mode as using lightdm or gdm2.
Most graphical environments get a similar layout of the panels and
their menus.
ACCESSIBILITY
See the document ACCESSIBILITY:
http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2.1/ACCESSIBILITY
INSTRUCTIONS FOR UPGRADING FROM 14.2
Follow the instructions detailed in the document README_UPGRADE
in the directory upgrade:
http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2.1/upgrade/
These instructions also apply to testers of a release candidate.
Note that upgrading from a Slint version earlier than 14.2 is NOT
supported at all and will most likely not work.
Alternatively make a full backup, install anew, restore from the backup.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Slint website: http://slint.fr (not yet updated for 14.2.1)
Forum: https://forum.salixos.org/viewforum.php?f=44
Mailing list: http://slint.fr/mailman/listinfo/slint_slint.fr
Didier: didier~at~slint~dot~fr
I welcome your feedback and am ready to cooperate with other projects.
Greetings,
Didier
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