I remember reading some time ago that it should be as simple as windowManager && orca && webBrowser or that with proper configuration, just typing startx... But I never managed to get it to work... And sadly, you can't get rid of the window manager entirely. You can run Orca+a web browser without a window manager, but my understanding is that doing so renders anything other than the browser's original window inaccessible. This includes obvious things, like launching Orca preferences or opening a link in a new Window, but also includes anything where the browser generates a dialog box(save a webpage, Firefox's "you are about to close x tabs" dialog when closing a window with multiple open tabs, saving or editing bookmarks, etc. And while I have an use a script someone else created to let me use Orca+Firefox in a stripped down x-session, I understand nothing of it beyond changing which window manager it uses, and I've never gotten it to work under a distro other than the one that it shipped with... granted, the script also generates a menu, and provided the software is installed, gives the user the option between launching Firefox like this, launching LibreOffice like this, or running a full LXDE session with Orca. I would love to have a portable script that I could feed any graphical app as a argument and it would launch a stripped down xsession with Orca and that app, bonus if it could default to launching a hardcoded app if one isn't specified(I'd probably have it default to Firefox-esr at present, but if I could use it to launch any app of my choosing, I'd probably try switching to SeaMonkey as my main browser since I understand it has most of the pros of Firefox while being more streamlined and the current blackbox script I'm using doesn't allow such flexibility. So yeah, I've actually tried this, but never got it to work and would like to actually get it to work. I like the console for pretty much everything that isn't web browsing, but having the option of trying a graphical solution for those one off tasks without installing a full desktop would be nice... the GUI launch script having a --no-orca option for launching self-voiced things would be nice too. On 2/11/22, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I know this is doable, but have never actually done it myself. > > I am looking for either a script, or the info I may need to write my own, > to launch any of my GUI web browsers with Orca, without actually starting > up a desktop, Mate, Gnome, etc, or first starting up a WM, weather Fluxbox > or ratpoison. > > If anyone could please point me in a direction, I'd appreciate it. > > I actually need this for work, my clients like calling on Google Duo. Why, > I have no idea! > > Warm regards, > > Brandt Steenkamp > > Sent from the Slint console using Alpine > > _______________________________________________ > 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