Hello John, In Debian Buster Mate is at version 1.20 but in Slint currently it is at version 1.24.
This could explain (or not: to be honest I didn't check) some of the differences. This being said the sources files of the various components of Mate come from the same repositories, but the choice to include or not a feature and the associated default configuration is made by the package maintainers of the various distributions. Cheers, Didier Le 20/05/2020 à 19:57, John J. Boyer a écrit : > Hello, > > All right, I can use yelp, but the procedure is rather weird. I have Debian > Buster. Originally it was CLI only. I first tried Gnome, but that kept > crashing and > burning. Mate is much better. I have a Focus 40 Braille display. When I start > yelp I can arrow down from the top. Things flash on the display, much too > fast to > read. Pressing the forward advance button does nothing, but if I press the > back button on the display I will get to something. Then pressing the forward > button > enables me to read the screen. I can even press buttons and links to go to > topics and read those. > > I've gotten used to having to use some weird maneuvers to get to things on > the GUI. Some of that may be due to Orca. I think that Orca and Mate should > behave the > same on all distros. > > Thanks, > John