you must not ave been inside X...try running firefox from the run dialog in Gnome. On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 10:19:17PM +0330, Parham wrote: > Ok the problem with speech is now fixed. The only problem is that I have no > idea what programs I can run. How can I get things I can run? > FOr example I typed "firefox" and it said, "cannot open display" or such > thing. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples at aim.com> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 10:00 PM > Subject: Re: Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp > > > >I have used the free vmware server at www.vmware.com, I just mentioned > > that there may be others as some people prefer to use open source > > software (as you have greater rights with open source software). > > > > If you use vmware, I think most of it is quite self explanatrary, > > download the windows version (I assume you will want to run this under > > windows) install, load vmware, create a new hardware configuration (not > > quite sure from memory what vmware calls this), choose the configuration > > options you want from the screens that come up, modify and add extra > > hardware if you want it (things like USB ports, serial ports, audio, > > etc), make sure that configuration boots from CD , insert CD and then > > get vmware to start the virtual machine and continue as if you were > > running Linux directly on the computer (you may need to tell vmware to > > grab keyboard input, I think it is ctrl+shift+g). Sorry those aren't > > very specific, but I am doing this by memory, and I think the menu items > > are enough (let us know if you have trouble and hopefully someone will > > know the specific answer). > > > > From > > Michael Whapples > > On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 20:33 +0330, Parham wrote: > >> The thing is that which one of these emulators should I get? And how can > >> I > >> install Linux on one? > >> Thanks. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 -- 'Mounting' is used for three things: climbing on a horse, linking in a hard disk unit in data systems, and, well, mounting during sex. -- Christa Keil
