Yes, XFCE can work for minimal things. However, for those who are sighted and need a magnifier I'm not sure how to get that working. The only way I can think is to run some part of gnome with xfce. Maybe gnome shell. However, I'm not sure how to do that. Another question is... Does anyone know of a console magnifier this way one could have screen access to the console when booting. Alonzo On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 03:11:56PM -0500, Kyle wrote: > One major problem I've had with disabling Pulseaudio on any system whose > sound card only handles a single audio stream is latency with regard to > the ALSA Dmix plugin. I do now have a system that probably runs best > with such a setup, but I have found the latency associated with Dmix to > be quite problematic, and haven't yet found a way to adjust it so that I > can mix multiple audio streams without causing delays when interrupting > speech or enduring a seemingly unresponsive system overall. ALso, I > generally run GNOME with a fallback to the command line, usually in > cases where I intentionally break something in the graphical environment > and need to fix it, which is quite a bit more likely on the old laptop I > would be using to test a setup without Pulseaudio than on my desktop, > which I use for everyday tasks that require a working system, and does > not give me the freedom to break things. I do, however, need access to > both Orca/speech-dispatcher and Speakup/Espeakup on this system, so it > would certainly help to be able to use Dmix or another method of > handling multiple streams at once using Alsa witout Pulseaudio, if it > wasn't for the latency issues I have. If anyone has multiple streams > playing through a sound card that normally only plays a single stream > and at the same time has figured out how to solve the latency problems > with ALSA/Dmix, and if anyone has figured out how to keep Espeak from > chopping words/letters in speech-dispatcher using ALSA directly, please > let me know how to make this setup work correctly. You may certainly > contact me off-list to help me personally with such a setup, but I'm > thinking that many on this list may also be able to benefit as well. > Thanks for any help. > ~Kyle > http://kyle.tk/ > -- > "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" > Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie" > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
