On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 01:01:07PM -0400, Terry D. Cudney wrote: > 1) why did you choose the xfce desktop? Because that is the default desktop in devuan. I would have gone with mate, except that depends on pulseaudio, which I don't want. Playing with mate in a virtual machine to see if it is still useable once pulseaudio is disabled is on my to-do list, but I haven't gotten there yet. My problem with xfce is that thunar isn't totally accessible. That can be replaced with tuxcmd for example, but that still leaves me with a useless desktop, because I get no feedback when moving between icons. > 2) I have little experience with gui's in debian, everything has been speakup/cli. What screen review package do you use in a qt-based desktop? I don't use a qt-based desktop, xfce and mate are based on gtk2. However, qt applications like virtualbox do seem to be mostly useable with orca. > 3) why the virtualbox vm, over vmware/kvm/etc? Because that's what I started out with since the 1.4.0 release, which I believe was in 2006. KVM wasn't available back then as far as I recall. If it was, then I wasn't aware of it, only of qemu. I do remember trying qemu, and not liking something about it, but I don't remember what that was anymore. I had no reason so far to switch away from virtualbox, and so that's what I continue to use. I have briefly tried kvm just to see what it's like. As for vmware, back in 2006 it was a commercial product from what I recall, and wasn't open source. > 4) have you run a windows guest on the debian host? any caveats there? I haven't done so recently, but have run windows 7 a few years ago with no issues that I can recall. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
