Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-21 Thread Devin Prater
Thanks. I tried to think of good, useful questions to spark discussion, but I don't know much about the structure of Debian or its project leaders. I do think, though, that if the project leader keeps accessibility in mind, this will filter down throughout Debian as a whole. As far as backports, m

Re: HOw to get more than 6 consoles in Bullseye

2022-03-21 Thread Christian Schoepplein
On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 10:30:38PM +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: > >I like to use 24 consoles. But I just installed BullsEye on a VM and I can't >figure out how to get any more than the default 6. Why not using tmux to get as many consoles you need? I was also using more then the 6 consoles in the p

Re: Pipewire (was Re: Thanks so Much)

2022-03-21 Thread Christian Schoepplein
On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 07:50:58PM -0400, Jason White wrote: >On 18/3/22 09:30, Sam Hartman wrote: >> The other thing I care about is that pipewire is more likely to do >> intelligent things when audio cards are added or removed. >> After a while, when I've assigned various apps to various devices,

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Devin, thanks for bringing accessibility questions in :) Jean-Philippe MENGUAL, le lun. 21 mars 2022 23:37:03 +0100, a ecrit: > Again, not sur the DPL can have a crucial role about this, > unfortunately. I agree, a DPL cannot make current maintainers magically find time to work on issues

Re: To all candidates: Debian and people with disabilities

2022-03-21 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Le 21/03/2022 à 00:07, Hideki Yamane a écrit : Hi, On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 12:09:24 -0500 Devin Prater wrote: * Have you heard of the Debian Accessibility group? Sorry, no. It means that there's an opportunity to people like me can know it more if the Debian Accessibility group could sh

Re: simple talking clock / reminder for when monitor is off and it is dark

2022-03-21 Thread Dan Ritter
Samuel Wales wrote: > i have to have all lights and monitors off at night. but i have to > know the time so i can take medicine. > > i want debian to tell me the time at certain times. for example > tonight i have to take medicine at 2:40 am. > > here are ideas: > > - tell me time when i righ

Re: simple talking clock / reminder for when monitor is off and it is dark

2022-03-21 Thread Rob Whyte
Have you looked up talkingclock by Stormdragon On 21/3/22 17:03, Samuel Wales wrote: > i have to have all lights and monitors off at night. but i have to > know the time so i can take medicine. > > i use slock and turn off monitor with ddccontrol. this might turn off > mouse and keyboard; i woui