Yeah, doing a sudo rm -Rf /tmp/* should be safe.
My system drive is 320 GB, but before I got in the routine of
regularly clearing out /tmp/ I'd get such errors constantly once /tmp/
accumulated 2GB of temp files.
Worst I've noticed is that Firefox and/or Orca are a little more prone
to crashing a
Best I can tell, the issue with the original dd command is that you're
referencing the device you want the image saved to by its device name,
not its mount point.
You probably want to mount /dev/sdb1 somewhere on your directory
tree(/media/sdb1 is a common choice) and then set the of argument in
t
On a somewhat related note, is there a way to stop getting e-mails
from Debian autoremoval, FTP master, bug tracking etc. without
affecting my subscription to this and other Debian mailing lists? It's
a bit tedious sifting through my inbox to trash them and then going
through my trash to delete the
I don't know if switching from nano to emacs would make a difference,
but the current behavior of my console screen reader is that all white
space is unvoiced in all contexts, and if there's a way to make it
voice whitespace, I don't know how to do it.
Probably doesn't help that my console screen reader of choice(SBL)
isn't a very common one... to my knowledge, the only distros that have
ever packaged it have been OpenSuse and Knoppix.
Admittedly, the only other console screen reader I've tried was
espeakup/piespeakup, for which I found screen r
Oh, I don't mind indentation per se... but in C++, the worse that
happens with a misplaced tab is that the code is a little harder to
parse visually. In Python, a misplaced tab can cause logic errors that
are a real gnoll to track down and will usually not trigger an
interpreter error... Misplaced
I thought the Cathedral represented proprietary software and FOSS was
the Bazaar in that old metaphor...
Considering Debian's policy on only including FOSS in the main distro,
targeting devices that target Linux might be the only sane option
Mobian has at their disposal... though I'm not sure Debi
I don't have any experience with Qemu, but assuming it can run x86
guests on ARM hosts at all, my expectation is that a old model
smartphone would be incapable of running Gnome or Mate within a
virtual machine with anything approaching decent performance,
especially once you throw in the Accessibil
While I think, "if the user chooses to install a desktop environment
during installation, it should come up automatically at boot" is a
reasonable default, I agree there should probably be an option in the
installer to make console login the default boot option, and if it
already exists in the expe
Following the link gives me an invalid certificate error in Firefox,
ignoring the warning brings me to the so long message, but removing
the s from https brings me to a page that says ACB Radio is now part
of ACB Media and provides the following address to the new website:
https://www.acbmedia.org
I'm not convinced making mouse controls more accessible is really all
that important. The problem with some GUI applications isn't so much
the need to precisely move a cursor and click on tiny icons or in this
age where everyone assumes everyone has a smartphone, precisely tap on
tiny icons, but th
Wi-Fi can be a bit finicky, both with ensuring you have the right
driver and configuration(there really ought to be a script that scans
for available access points, presents a menu of the detected access
points, and prompts for apassword if needed instead of having to
either bake wi-fi networks int
Even with console applications, there are various toolkits that allow
for the creation of pseudo-GUIs and many such applications do have a
number of keyboard commands, though they don't always adhere to the
conventions shared by most GUI applications(e.g. in the Nano text
editor, save is ctrl+o, no
I read comments like "Press s and enter", "press a and enter then s
and enter", "press down arrow 5 times and enter", and all I'm hearing
is that Blind people need to know something about the install media
sighted people can be comfortably ignorant of.
This strikes me as backwards and as the kind
Sorry if anyone gets this message twice, I got tripped up by the
default reply to being a choice between the last respondant and
everyone instead of something sensible like "just the list".
I might have missed some details on account of several people quoting
huge chunks of the conversation and th
You know, some of us actually prefer the console to running resource
intensive desktop environments and graphical applications, and since
Orca only works in the GUI, console screen readers are a necessity for
those who need a screen reader and choose to live in the console.
Plus, a console screen r
Considering that most of Orca's development seems to be taken up by an
endless game of whack-a-mole where some website or application does
something stupid that makes it inaccessible or at least harder to use
than it should be, someone reports the issue on the Orca mailing list,
and then the Orca d
Thanks for the heads up, I don't think I'm running any GTK4
apps(Firefox is the only reason I'm not 100% living in the console),
but Aptitude is installing the upgrade and I'll be rebooting the GUI
as soon as I'm done sending this e-mail and Aptitude is done.
In all fairness, unless Windows has vastly improved, a standard retail
copy of Windows is lacking in all but the most basic of hardware
drivers and doesn't even have an equivalent to the non-free firmware
version of Debian, forcing anyone in need of doing a clean install who
doesn't have an OEM edi
I don't think I've ever done an install of Debian with either Gnome or
Mate, but considering those are, best I can tell, two of the three
most popular desktop environments among mainstream Linux users(KDE
being the third), I find it hard to believe that something as big as
an endless loop of trying
I'm not familiar with darts, shooting ranges, or anything else in the
target hitting category... how good/bad is a score of 9 for a single
shot?
I generally find text-mode web browsers annoying to impossible to work
with(The navigational hotkeys provided by Orca, NVDA, and JAWS are
just too darn useful), but couldn't some of the configuration hassles
be alleviated by someone who has configured the browser to uplaod
their config file somewhe
Orca is strictly a graphical screen reader, but there are options for
getting a screen reader up and running in a command-line only
environment.
Probably the two most widely used options are espeakup and Fenrir.
espeakup acts as a bridge between the speakup kernel module and the
espeak or espeak-
I'd second just turning the monitor off and it's even possible your
laptop has a key combination to do so(try googling turn off screen and
the make and model of your laptop)... unfortunately, some laptop
makers fail to realize someone might not want their monitor on and
will turn it on automaticall
As an interpreted language, isn't Python code supposed to be OS
agnostic as long as the interpreter has been ported to the target
environment?
It might just be a case of the developer assuming most users run
Windows and having not tested on other platforms.
I know this should probably be discussed on the Official Raspberry
Foundation mailing list if such a thing exists, but a few thoughts:
1. At present, Raspbian enables ssh by creating a blank file called
ssh in the boot partition and then booting the card. Could a similar
method be used for enablin
I'm not sure the minimal install resulting in a blank screen is
actually due to lack of non-free graphics drivers. While the GUI is an
integral part of Windows that Microsoft forces upon all users, in
addition to giving users the choice between a number of different
Desktop Environments, Linux can
I haven't messed with display settings in over 7 years, but one
thought that comes to mind is that maybe the settings are being
changed, but not immediately applied. If that's the case, a reboot or
even just logging out and back in might force your computer to display
the gui with the new settings.
I haven't used pip or Fenrir before, but is there a reason to prefer
pip over installing from the apt repositories?
On 2/2/20, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Jude DaShiell, le dim. 02 févr. 2020 07:35:50 -0500, a ecrit:
>> > pip3 install fenrir-screenreader and that should work on any linux
This is just a suggestion, but perhaps, instead of having "Debian
Desktop Environment" as an alias for the default without any
explanation, perhaps it would be better to restructure the software
selection menu to something like:
1. Gnome Desktop Environment(Debian Default)
2. Mate Desktop Environm
Checking Aptitude, libgtk-3-0 depends on libwayland-client, and
Firefox depends on libgtk-3-0 and Orca has libwayland-client and
libgtk-3-0 somewhere in its dependency chains. I don't run a full
desktop environment, but as these are the only graphical programs I
run, I suspect most, if not all, cur
I can't speak for the Debian Testing version of Firefox, but the
versions in Debian Unstable only suggest pulseaudio, and I've found a
reliable means of getting Firefox 60+ to produce sound with apulse.
Install apulse and patchelf then
cd /usr/lib/firefox/
or
cd /usr/lib/firefox-esr/
and run(m
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