Hello All -- and Happy New Year to all: Like many of you, I've become comfortable with compiling applications and rolling out linux kernels with Speakup compiled in. Well, OK, I've become somewhat comfortable with the basics. In other words, I'm ready to take the next tentative step. For me, this means tweaking some of my pet peaves with my computer into behaving like I want them to behave, rather than living with the defaults. I have two tweaks that I want to put into effect: 1.) The system bell stinks, imho. I hate that 1 kHz (or whatever) tone that one gets with Ctrl-G, ASCII char 7, or %BELL, or whatever the heck it's called in one programming environment or other. I want something else. The something else I want I can already effect in a simple shell script. Where and how do I make this the default? I presume this is somewhere in the kernel code as a call of some sort that I would substitute my own call with. Gak, what terrible grammar, but I suspect you'll get the idea; 2.) I intend to keep using Pine. Because I have Caldera on my portable system, I have to compile from sources if I want to upgrade to the latest and greatest. This gives me the opportunity to tweak, hopefully, how the Pine index is displayed. In other words, I want to change the order of summary info Pine will display when a folder's index is on screen; Any advice on the above would be greatly appreciated. -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina at afb.net (202) 408-8175 http://www.afb.org/gov.html The invention of the printing press has been named the crowning achievement of the past millennium. Yet, electronic publishing will soon eclipse it. Read our White Paper: "Surpassing Gutenberg" available at: http://www.afb.org/ebook.html Are you developing software? Make it accessible to blind computer users. Read http://www.afb.org/technology/accessapp.html to learn how.
