What does "weird" mean? The -show_cursor argument is for lynx with a y, not elinks. Pay attention. Farhan writes: > yes, i actaully tried lynx and it was sorta wierd, i'll try elinks and see > what happens do i have to type elinks show-cursor or not > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <mikster4 at msn.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:36 AM > Subject: Re: getting off my windows dependency > > > >Would be helpful if you described what you want help with. > > > >I will assume that you meant what e-mail clients and web browsers are > >there. I will assume you have your hardware sorted, and can get a > >connection to the internet. > >I am currently writing this e-mail in cone. I like this because it allows > >you to have multiple accounts specified, supports pop3, imap, smtp, local > >mail and limited support for news accounts. I have found that cone does > >not like my university imap server, so for that I use pine. There are many > >more, and if you are using a distribution like Debian or Gentoo with many > >packages and a package management system, search that for e-mail, or > >similar. > > > >Web browsers, elinks is a good general purpose text based one, giving > >cookies, java script, bookmarks, support for frames, and more. Most > >pre-built packages of elinks do not seem to have java script, you may have > >to build it from source (I found the patch included with elinks 0.11 did > >not work on spidermonkey, so I had to compile spidermonkey with elinks > >0.10 first). Links2 comes with java script built in for most pre-built > >packages, but links2 is more limited in features, elinks is a branch-off > >from links2 and aims to give more features. Lynx is a very basic text > >browser, but for simple things, I find best. There may be some for gnome, > >but I don't know of these and their accessibility. Mike Farhan writes: > > > >>Hey i want to get off my windows dependency for reading email and using > >>the net but i'm not sure how to do this. i need some help to get away > >>from...microcrap. help? > >>_______________________________________________ > >>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 -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
