If nmtui isn't available, you may need to use netctl but make sure dialog is pre-installed or netctl won't work. On Sun, 1 Aug 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Since Solus came up again, I'll share my observations of the three DEs I've > used. I'm leaving Plasma out since it doesn't work too well for me, but yMMV > on that > > > Budgie: > It's, boiling it down. Gnome with a fancy coat of paint and is the Solus > flagship one. It works well enough given it's Gnome 40 based and is very much > useable. Now if I could assign keyboard shortcuts, that'd be handy. Maybe I > can and haven't found it yet, I dunno. One note I do have is that LightDM is > the login manager and is insanely /loud/ on startup once you enable Orca with > the usual shortcut. So just have a long, long keyboard cable, and Budgie/Gnome > have a nice startup sound when you log in, which is always a nice touch. The > Solus team have put a lot of care into the DE from what I've found. > > Gnome: > > It's Gnome. It's Gnome 40. Need I say more? One note is I couldn't get speech > at a login manager on my system. It does have a nice startup sound to a la > Budgie. > > > Mate: > > Oh this is going to be disappointing. There's a few issues with Mate as far as > Solus goes. > > > 1. The Orca shortcut isn't set. Which isn't a big deal since alt+f2 and orca > sorts that then when you get the system installed it's two seconds work to set > the shortcut and set Orca to autostart. > > > 2. THe much, much, MUCH bigger issue is the desktop loses focus and requires a > GTK dialog to be loaded. Quit Chromium? Yeah Orca+H, F2, and then keep going. > Now. If there's a compyz setting I've overlooked to fix this...then sure, I'll > give it another shot. Don't get me wrong. Mate is fantastic when it works. > It's just....when it breaks on Solus and needs workarounds, it's kind of a > bugbear for me, as well as the bottom panel being unlabeled, but you can get > around most of that As with Budgie it uses LightDM so you get Orca working on > the login screen, again, stupidly loud. If the focus loss issue can be fixed, > then I'm liable to switch back to Mate full time instead of Budgie. > > And, there's no startup sound either which, really, disappointing given the > other two have one and I don't know bout Plasma, but it feels to me like the > Mate one isn't fully finished up vs the other DE. > > > And related note, I'm hunting down an nmtui which doesn't seem to be shipped > with Solus. I may just request it or ask on their forums if one's in and I'm > using the wrong name. > > > Related note #2: > > Somehow it's more stable for me than Ubuntu, which I didn't think possible. > > > For installed things? > > Mate didn't come with a mail client and came with Firefox which I've replaced > with Brave, and installed Thunderbird. Each distro ships with Orca 40.0, but > I've not tried building Orca from git yet, I'm wary of installing the build > deps on an already working system > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list