There is a shut down option on the bottom of the alt+F1 menu. Or use the hotkey ctrl+alt+delete You will have a chance to choose shut down restart or suspend or do nothing and the system will shut down after a count down. Press the windows key Type terminal and press enter I’m not on my Linux at the moment, but I believe terminal is also on the accessories menu. > On Oct 29, 2021, at 6:21 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks a million for your help. I tried your suggestions to no avail. However, something strange happened, when I connected my braille display it connected to accessible coconut right away. I was able to browse the menus and connect to the internet. During my browsing the speech came on. > I have two questions, how can I get a command line prompt? My second question is, what is the command to turn off the computer? Alt f4 did not take me there. > Cheers, > Ibrahim > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 29, 2021, at 1:56 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Press alt plus F1. >> Do you hear speech? >> If not, press escape. >> Press alt plus F2 >> Type >> orca >> Press enter. >> This should fix it. >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Oct 29, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Is there a step by step tutorial on how to start? >>> I downloaded the accessible coconut iso and put it on a bootable usb drive. I was able to boot the machine from the usb, but there was no speech to guide me. I was able to confirm that I indeed booted from usb with accessible coconut by using my iPhone camera. I have no idea how to get the speech going. So please if you have a tutorial, send it my way. >>> Ibrahim >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>>> On Oct 29, 2021, at 10:29 AM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> When using the live CD, The screenreader started at boot. >>>> But a after I installed it, I get no screenreader at startup. >>>> All settings as far as I know are correct. >>>> The only way to get speech is to go to the run window with >>>> Alt+F2 >>>> Then type >>>> orca >>>> And press enter. >>>> I reinstalled linux and got the same result. >>>> As I was doing the install, I checked the box to get updates during the install. Could this be the cause of my trouble? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Rob >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list