Well, there are screen readers for x-windows, and also specifically for gnome, but they are in early development and are not production quality at this point. However, now that I am able to actually run x-windows, I would like to try some or all of these programs. Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Juan Hernandez wrote: > people can now use x-windows??? > > > How??? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lorenzo Prince" <lorenzo at princenet.sytes.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 11:03 AM > Subject: Re: Speakup and phoebe > > > > So how do I get Gnome to work on my Slackware 9.0 system? When I type > > 'gdm' which I thought was the command to start Gnome, it does nothing. > > > > Thanks, > > Lorenzo > > > > E Pluribus Unix > > > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Adam Myrow wrote: > > > > > So, why did Redhat choose to drop Speakup from their next version? It > > > sounds like maybe somebody didn't like the modified kernel. So, they > > > should have done like Slackware and gave the user a choice of a > > > Speakup-enabled kernel or not. BTW, Slackware 9.0 just came out and has > > > Gnome 2.2 with accessibility plug-ins, and still supports Speakup. It > is > > > down to a boot disk and two root disks to install, but also has a third > > > option which is some sort of boot manager on a separate disk that will > > > supposedly boot a CDROM even on computers that otherwise can't boot one. > > > I don't know if this will speak or not, but it sure sounds interesting. > I > > > sure hope Redhat reconsiders dropping Speakup as it is a major step in > the > > > wrong direction. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
