Orca volume at logon is too low

2025-07-24 Thread Cleverson Casarin Uliana
Hi, please how can I raise the volume for Orca during the logon screen? It's too low. I don't recall what desktop manager I'm using to log on, but it's the same installed with mate by default on a new installation. As soon as I log on, the volume gets loud enough. thanks, Cleverson

Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

2025-07-11 Thread K0LNY ??
nt: Friday, July 11, 2025 5:00 AM Subject: Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 12:52:56PM -0500, K0LNY ?? wrote: > Hello, > I'm using Debian Bullseye, the raspberrypi version, so I can set it up for > folks who only use Windows. The Raspberry Pi folks did

Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

2025-07-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
icense Oralux to "sell" premium voices at low cost as a nominal fee. Ask Oralux? Their website suggests that it is at least tested on Debian Trixie. > I did sudo apt reinstall orca > but that didn't help. > The only two choices in the voice tab are default and espeak. >

Re: espeakup no longer works in trixie after lots of package updates but orca does

2025-07-10 Thread Nick Gawronski
able to use orca just fine. I have no idea what packages that were upgraded caused the issue as there were espeak-ng and speech-dispatcher updates but espeakup was not updated and the systemctl status command ran fine with no issues and it has the espeakup process running. Here is the output

Re: espeakup no longer works in trixie after lots of package updates but orca does

2025-07-09 Thread jude dashiell
chrome box since tdsr performs way better in Linux on Chromebook than chrome box. On Jul 4, 2025, at 9:50 AM, Nick Gawronski wrote: Hi, I have trixie installed and noticed that after lots of updates espeakup no longer speaks when the system reboots to the console but I am able to use orca just

Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

2025-07-08 Thread K0LNY ??
t is the latest version of Voxin that runs in a 32 bit system? Thanks. - Original Message - From: "Samuel Thibault" To: Sent: Monday, July 7, 2025 3:33 PM Subject: Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices K0LNY wrote: > It is odd that spd-say "testing" | aplay works, so

Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

2025-07-08 Thread Didier Spaier
If I may chime in... On 7/8/25 23:33, Samuel Thibault wrote: > K0LNY ??, le mar. 08 juil. 2025 16:30:53 -0500, a ecrit: >> After reinstalling everything, and still having the same trouble, I looked >> again. >> I misinterpreted when you wrote /user, you meant something like /run/pi/... > > /run/

Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

2025-07-08 Thread K0LNY ??
- Original Message - From: "Samuel Thibault" To: "K0LNY ??" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2025 4:33 PM Subject: Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices K0LNY ??, le mar. 08 juil. 2025 16:30:53 -0500, a ecrit: > After reinstalling everything, and still having the

Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

2025-07-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
in would? Samuel > - Original Message - > From: "Samuel Thibault" > To: > Sent: Monday, July 7, 2025 3:33 PM > Subject: Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices > > > K0LNY wrote: > > It is odd that spd-say "testing" | aplay works, so Voxin is wo

Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

2025-07-08 Thread K0LNY ??
Sent: Monday, July 7, 2025 3:33 PM Subject: Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices K0LNY wrote: > It is odd that spd-say "testing" | aplay works, so Voxin is working. | aplay ? Why this pipe? There should be no need for this. But that's useful data point. Then, *as usual*, we need

Re: control alt spacebar to install Orca

2025-07-08 Thread john doe
On 7/8/25 19:00, K0LNY ?? wrote: Hi All, I'm trying this image again, it is Bullseye with a Raspbian like setup, > We have no idea what this image is about. You have dedicated channels for Raspbian. -- John Doe

control alt spacebar to install Orca

2025-07-08 Thread K0LNY ??
Hi All, I'm trying this image again, it is Bullseye with a Raspbian like setup, but it is for PCs. It comes up with the typical espeak voice saying press control alt space bar to install Orca. I have normally done this, but the last time, on this image, I could not get voxin voices worki

Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

2025-07-07 Thread K0LNY ??
lenn - Original Message - From: "john doe" To: Sent: Monday, July 7, 2025 2:39 PM Subject: Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices On 7/7/25 20:50, K0LNY ?? wrote: > Can anyone else get the .deb version of these voices? > I put the &g at the end of the links, and I don&#x

Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

2025-07-07 Thread K0LNY ??
Hi Samuel, This is voxin 3.4. It has worked in other Debian based Linux distros, I have had these voices for some time now, so they should work. It is odd that spd-say "testing" | aplay works, so Voxin is working. Normally I can just install the 3.4 files and they find Or

Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

2025-07-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY wrote: > It is odd that spd-say "testing" | aplay works, so Voxin is working. | aplay ? Why this pipe? There should be no need for this. But that's useful data point. Then, *as usual*, we need actual logs to be able to determine what is going wrong. They are in /run/user/1000something/spee

Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

2025-07-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
settings. Which voxin installer did you use? Did it mention integration with orca, i.e. with speech-dispatcher? If it doesn't expose a speech-dispatcher module, Orca will not find it. You need to be more explicit about what installer you used, and most probably it's the provider of it that n

Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

2025-07-07 Thread john doe
On 7/7/25 20:50, K0LNY ?? wrote: Can anyone else get the .deb version of these voices? I put the &g at the end of the links, and I don't get the .deb, I still just get the tgz version. What tarball are you talking about, you ar not providing any URL. -- John Doe

Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

2025-07-07 Thread K0LNY ??
Here's another oddity: If I do voxin-say "hello" | aplay I can hear the voxin voice I installed. But orca just isn't using it. I then tried installing speechd-up and that caused errors with voxin, so I uninstalled that. Could it be something between orca and alsa? I removed

Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

2025-07-07 Thread K0LNY ??
uot;Chime Hart" To: "K0LNY ??" Cc: Sent: Monday, July 7, 2025 1:02 PM Subject: Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices Hi Glen: I am useing Allison in ORCA on this Debian SID machine. Even on my main console only machine, I can switch to Allison from my DecTalk with a Speakup script wr

Re: Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

2025-07-07 Thread Chime Hart
Hi Glen: I am useing Allison in ORCA on this Debian SID machine. Even on my main console only machine, I can switch to Allison from my DecTalk with a Speakup script written by Chuck many years ago. Its called "talkwith" but you must run as sudo. I think Didier has a similar offeri

Orca Does Not Use Voxin Voices

2025-07-07 Thread K0LNY ??
thing. I have installed three different Voxin voices, one of them the IBM one. They are all Voxin 3.4 They install okay, and the IBM one spoke after the install was finished. They do not show up in Orca's voice settings. I did sudo apt reinstall orca but that didn't help. The only two

espeakup no longer works in trixie after lots of package updates but orca does

2025-07-04 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I have trixie installed and noticed that after lots of updates espeakup no longer speaks when the system reboots to the console but I am able to use orca just fine.  I have no idea what packages that were upgraded caused the issue as there were espeak-ng and speech-dispatcher updates but

Re: [orca] Re: Some questions regarding Linux accessibility needed for an article in the C'T magazine

2025-06-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, aaron hewitt, le mer. 11 juin 2025 12:50:34 +, a ecrit: > Gnome is the only option that works with Wayland and Orca, because other > compositors don't handle global keybindings from other applications. Yes, that is a common concern. Previously Wayland environments had no w

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-06-12 Thread Nick Gawronski
Gawronski On 6/12/2025 2:12 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote: Hi, Now it works just fine and I am able to run both orca and speakup successfully using espeakup to interface with espeak.  If I would ever want to buy any camertial synthesizers for linux that have been talked about on this list would this

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-06-12 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Now it works just fine and I am able to run both orca and speakup successfully using espeakup to interface with espeak.  If I would ever want to buy any camertial synthesizers for linux that have been talked about on this list would this setup work with them also like setting one screen

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-06-12 Thread Chevelle
work on my system.  Are you saying that in the mate desktop you can press control and alt and f1 and get speech in the console using speakup then when you want to go back to the desktop you can press control and alt and f7 and orca speaks and you can go back and forth with no issues as this is what

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-06-12 Thread Cleverson Casarin Uliana
Hi, I've installed Trixie recently as well, and I can confirm that Orca and Speakup are working side by side nicely. I haven't yet checked whether the audio stack is pulse or pipewire based. Cheers, Cleverson

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-06-12 Thread K0LNY ??
pulseaudio and all is good now. So, it may need to become common practice to remove pulseaudio. Glenn - Original Message - From: "Chevelle" To: Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2025 8:23 AM Subject: Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the conso

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-06-12 Thread Nick Gawronski
control and alt and f1 and get speech in the console using speakup then when you want to go back to the desktop you can press control and alt and f7 and orca speaks and you can go back and forth with no issues as this is what I want to be able to do?  Nick Gawronski On 6/12/2025 8:23 AM

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-06-12 Thread Chevelle
On Debian Bookworm, I can get this to work by getting rid of pulseaudio. /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf has this line AudioOutputMethod pulse Pipewire is running and has a process called 'pipewire-pulse'. ps -ef|grep pulse You should find '/usr/bin/pipewire-pulse' running, it emulates wh

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-06-11 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I am still trying to get this to work and am not sure who to file the proper bugs to about this so is there a place that this can be done as I kind of see this as a major issue that needs to be looked into as I am sure that it is possible?  Nick Gawronski On 3/6/2025 12:39 PM, Dietmar Segb

Re: [orca] Some questions regarding Linux accessibility needed for an article in the C'T magazine

2025-06-11 Thread Milton
Hi, I only can answer question 1: I use GNOME and Xorg with Orca and cannot compare with others because I do not use them. Op 11-06-2025 om 12:57 schreef Christian Schoepplein: Hi, I have the possebility to support writing an article regarding Linux accessibility for blind people in one of

Re: Problem applying Orca settings in testing

2025-04-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le dim. 06 avril 2025 16:12:25 +0200, a ecrit: > Tyler Spivey, le sam. 05 avril 2025 15:59:19 -0700, a ecrit: > > I'm running Debian testing with MATE, latest packages as of now, orca > > 48.0-3, speech-dispatcher 0.12.0-2, espeak-ng-data 1.52.0+dfsg-5. >

Re: Problem applying Orca settings in testing

2025-04-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Tyler Spivey, le sam. 05 avril 2025 15:59:19 -0700, a ecrit: > I'm running Debian testing with MATE, latest packages as of now, orca > 48.0-3, speech-dispatcher 0.12.0-2, espeak-ng-data 1.52.0+dfsg-5. > When I activate the Orca preferences with Orca+Space, then press Apply, I

Re: Problem applying Orca settings in testing

2025-04-06 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi all. Another user reported that here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/issues/584 However, I'm unable to reproduce it, and Orca's own logging is showing nothing of use. The reporter of the issue says the problem also happens with older versions of Orca, such as Orca v46. So

Problem applying Orca settings in testing

2025-04-05 Thread Tyler Spivey
Hi, I'm running Debian testing with MATE, latest packages as of now, orca 48.0-3, speech-dispatcher 0.12.0-2, espeak-ng-data 1.52.0+dfsg-5. When I activate the Orca preferences with Orca+Space, then press Apply, I hear screen reader settings reloaded, then I have no more speech after

Re: Best way to upgrade Orca from backports on Bookworm

2025-03-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, john doe, le mer. 26 mars 2025 12:37:49 +0100, a ecrit: > Following the example on the Debian accessibility wiki([1]) regarding > Debian 12, I get: > > Package python3-pyatspi is not available, > Package libatk-wrapper-java is not available, > Package libatk-wrapper-java-jni is not avail

Re: [orca] Re: [maybe off-topic] difference between IsEnabled and ScreenReaderEnabled DBus properties

2025-03-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
ing too. Samuel > Dne 26. 03. 25 v 15:16 Patrick ZAJDA napsal(a): > > Hello, > > I post both to Orca and Debian-Accessibility lists because I am not sure > about which one is the most related. > > I see there are two properties in org.a11y.Status (DBU

Re: Fwd: Best way to upgrade Orca from backports on Bookworm

2025-03-26 Thread Chevelle
uch as incompatible configuration schema). Release files make this possible, and all backported packages are pinned..." On 3/26/25 06:15, john doe wrote: FWDing this as it was sent to me privately. Forwarded Message Subject: Re: Best way to upgrade Orca from backports on Bo

Re: Best way to upgrade Orca from backports on Bookworm

2025-03-26 Thread Chime Hart
Hi John: When I get similar errors I run aptitude which sometimes sorts it all out. An only issue with aptitude, it has a limit of 40 packages, which I wish I could ajust or remove that limit. Chime

Re: Best way to upgrade Orca from backports on Bookworm

2025-03-26 Thread john doe
-pyatspi/bullseye-backports orca/bullseye-backports libatk-wrapper-java-jni/bullseye-backports libatk-wrapper-java/bullseye-backports` for Debian 11. I did upgrade Orca 43 to 47 using the Bookworm backports by doing `apt-get install -t bookworm-backports orca`. I'm not seeing any issues by h

Fwd: Best way to upgrade Orca from backports on Bookworm

2025-03-26 Thread john doe
FWDing this as it was sent to me privately. Forwarded Message Subject: Re: Best way to upgrade Orca from backports on Bookworm Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:27:46 + From: matthew dyer To: john doe Hi, IMO, I think that debian accessibility needs to be updated as the way

Re: Best way to upgrade Orca from backports on Bookworm

2025-03-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Chevelle, le mar. 25 mars 2025 19:19:08 -0400, a ecrit: > Hello, I had one system where this upgrade worked and one that failed.  On > the one that failed, some python import statements failed when ORCA is > started.  From what I can tell the ORCA package needs 'python3

Re: Best way to upgrade Orca from backports on Bookworm

2025-03-25 Thread Chevelle
Hello, I had one system where this upgrade worked and one that failed.  On the one that failed, some python import statements failed when ORCA is started.  From what I can tell the ORCA package needs 'python3-dbus'.  So if your ORCA won't speak, try this: sudo apt install

Best way to upgrade Orca from backports on Bookworm

2025-03-25 Thread john doe
Hi, At [1] it is suggested to do `apt-get install at-spi2-core/bullseye-backports gir1.2-atspi-2.0/bullseye-backports gir1.2-atk-1.0/bullseye-backports libatk-adaptor/bullseye-backports python3-pyatspi/bullseye-backports orca/bullseye-backports libatk-wrapper-java-jni/bullseye-backports libatk

Re: Best way to upgrade Orca from backports on Bookworm

2025-03-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, john doe, le mar. 25 mars 2025 19:41:43 +0100, a ecrit: > At [1] it is suggested to do `apt-get install > at-spi2-core/bullseye-backports gir1.2-atspi-2.0/bullseye-backports > gir1.2-atk-1.0/bullseye-backports libatk-adaptor/bullseye-backports > python3-pyatspi/bullseye-ba

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-03-07 Thread Dietmar Segbert
Hello Didier, thanks for your answer. I will test that. Regards Dietmar > did...@slint.fr schrieb am 06.03.25: > Hello, > On 04/03/2025 21:05, Dietmar Segbert wrote: >> I don not know, where i can set alsa card 0 as default soundcard in alsa/ >> pipewire. > I never used pipewire but I used t

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-03-05 Thread Didier Spaier
etup a table lang => associated voice file name # We will start espeakup with a voice file name as argument of the # -V option, as if we give a $lang-$country argument that does # not match a voice file name it segfault when we switch from a # graphical en

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-03-03 Thread Chevelle
Samuel asks "But doesn't libao conflict with a pipewire running in the desktop?" On this system the line in speechd.conf audioOutputMethod "libao" is not commented out, so it appears to work. On another system I have, when I tried that, I had problems. I think it didn't talk, so I commented th

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Chevelle, le lun. 03 mars 2025 15:20:14 -0500, a ecrit: > Debian has a long term plan to get rid of pulseaudio and the pipewire > process is running to handle what pulse did previously. Then you can do what > the Debian accessibility FAQ says and configure the 'libao' in > /etc/speech-dispatcher/sp

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-03-03 Thread Chevelle
In my experience the best thing to do is become root and purge the pulseaudio package.  You may want to have braille running or 'ssh' into the box in case it doesn't work. apt purge pulseaudio Debian has a long term plan to get rid of pulseaudio and the pipewire process is running to handle

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Sebastian Humenda wrote: > @Samuel, have you any idea how to solve this rather complex issue? I don't know. As I have repeated in the past this should be discussed with pipewire people to determine what would be a long-term-maintained solution, or with alsa debian maintainer to possibly de

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY wrote: > Can he set espeakup to use an old external synth, and if so, will it fix > this issue? Yes, since that'll avoid using the sound board of the computer. Samuel

Re: pdf reader that works with Orca

2025-02-26 Thread Roberto Burceni
Hi, In some cases, when you press F7 and activate the caret navigations, you have to reload orca for beginning to read. Best regards Roberto Burceni Linux System Admin & PHP developer Esperto accessibilità siti web E-mail: robe...@robertoburceni.it Phone: +393358208080 P.iva: 04025840986

Re: pdf reader that works with Orca

2025-02-25 Thread Chevelle
Atril Document viewer and some other applications require you to enable caret navigation.  You can press the F7 key to toggle it. After that you should be able to arrow up and down or use the 'speak entire document' key.  You can press alt-e to get to the Edit menu and try to save your preferen

Re: pdf reader that works with Orca

2025-02-25 Thread Kenneth
skrev john doe: On 2/23/25 20:55, Kenneth wrote: It contains text, it works with Jaws on Windows, why i dont understand that im not able to read pdf files in Debian with Orca JAWS is able to read it, if it were containing text Orca should be able to readit. Also, it would be nice to say all

Re: pdf reader that works with Orca

2025-02-25 Thread Kenneth
Hello Iris, Thanks for your suggestion, unfortuneately, i am not able to get to the pdf content.. Only Atril and Atril options.. But it wont get to the content. Best kind regards Kenneth Den 24.02.2025 kl. 13.20 skrev Iris Schaedler: Hello, Am Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 08:33:40PM +0100 schrieb K

Re: pdf reader that works with Orca

2025-02-24 Thread Iris Schaedler
Hello, Am Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 08:33:40PM +0100 schrieb Kenneth: > Thanks for the suggestion, i've just tested, and it dosent read the pdf > file, just reads page 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. but it does not read the text or > content of the pdf file - Tested with Firefox. With the Tab and Arrow Keys you shol

Re: pdf reader that works with Orca

2025-02-23 Thread john doe
On 2/23/25 20:55, Kenneth wrote: It contains text, it works with Jaws on Windows, why i dont understand that im not able to read pdf files in Debian with Orca JAWS is able to read it, if it were containing text Orca should be able to readit. Also, it would be nice to say all pertinent

Re: pdf reader that works with Orca

2025-02-23 Thread Kenneth
It contains text, it works with Jaws on Windows, why i dont understand that im not able to read pdf files in Debian with Orca Den 23.02.2025 kl. 20.39 skrev john doe: On 2/23/25 20:33, Kenneth wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, i've just tested, and it dosent read the pdf file, just reads

Re: pdf reader that works with Orca

2025-02-23 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Well if the PDF file contains only images no wonders (OCR) will happen. But with PDF documents that contain text and are structured I expect Firefox to do a reasonable job.

Re: pdf reader that works with Orca

2025-02-23 Thread john doe
On 2/23/25 20:33, Kenneth wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, i've just tested, and it dosent read the pdf file, just reads page 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. but it does not read the text or content of the pdf file - Tested with Firefox. Likely because the PDF is a pickture of a scanned document. -- John Do

Re: pdf reader that works with Orca

2025-02-23 Thread Kenneth
Thanks for the suggestion, i've just tested, and it dosent read the pdf file, just reads page 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. but it does not read the text or content of the pdf file - Tested with Firefox. Best kind regards Kenneth Den 23.02.2025 kl. 19.58 skrev Sébastien Hinderer: Hello, Try opening your P

Re: pdf reader that works with Orca

2025-02-23 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Hello, Try opening your PDF documents in your web browser, e.g. Firefox.

pdf reader that works with Orca

2025-02-23 Thread Kenneth
Hi, I have difficulties reading pdf files on Linux Debian 12.9 bookworm. Im not sure if it's me who is just not using Orca correctly, so id like to know if there is users on this list that can recommend a pdf reader and or some knowledge, if i need to use some special key combinations to

Re: Missing function with Orca, how to add?

2025-02-23 Thread Kenneth
Hi John, Thanks for your suggestion, i am not able to use the Orca mail list, when i request subscribtion, it gives a internal error. I have written a mail to the webmaster, but they havent replied. Thanks for the xbindkeys recommendation, it seems to work :-) Best kind regards Kenneth Den

Re: Missing function with Orca, how to add?

2025-02-19 Thread john doe
screen. For Orca specific question you are better off on the Orca mailing list. If you use "xbindkeys", you don't need to touch Orca at all. -- John Doe

Missing function with Orca, how to add?

2025-02-19 Thread Kenneth
: .local/share/orca/orca-customizations.py, but Orca dosent seem to accept this.. Can someone help me on how to edit the key bindings in Orca and how i add a python script to add a function to turn off/on the screen? Currently on Orca 43.1 and on another debian laptop i have Orca 47.3 - Both

Re: Are Their deb Packages for ORCA 48?

2025-02-09 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, Indeed, it is a bad idea to run a full update with this flag. It is normal to see many packages to be updated, while there are not when you dont use the flag, as with it, it searches what to update in the experimental repo. But experimental should not be considered as a branch as sid. If p

Re: Are Their deb Packages for ORCA 48?

2025-02-09 Thread Chime Hart
Hi Jean: Thank you: Once I had an experimental in the list, I was able to install ORCA48. An item which is fascinating to me is if I use that -t flag with any package, it says 298 packages not upgraded, but otherwise everything is up2date. I suppose it would be risky to run an update with that f

Re: Are Their deb Packages for ORCA 48?

2025-02-09 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
suites: field. But again, I suggest you do this after you have what you want from orca point of view. To install the experimental version of Orca, did you type: apt install orca -t experimental ? That should install automatically the dependencies. Finally, to find the binary (but not sure

Re: Are Their deb Packages for ORCA 48?

2025-02-08 Thread Chime Hart
Well, thank you Jeremy-and-Samuel. Looks as if I accidently nuked Samuel's original reply. Meanwhile last evening after alot of searching I found an url of experimental, which I put in a separate file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d. Was finally able to upgrade ORCA. And certainly April 15 is

Re: Are Their deb Packages for ORCA 48?

2025-02-08 Thread Jeremy Bícha
to the same line as testing in the new format. Just separate the words with a space. Samuel, do you plan to get Orca 48 into Debian Trixie? If so, did you want to upload it to Unstable now? If you wait for 48.0, it will probably be after Transition Freeze, but I don't think anyone would stop you f

Re: Are Their deb Packages for ORCA 48?

2025-02-08 Thread Jeremy Bícha
On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM Samuel Thibault wrote: > 48.0 will most probably happen before april 15. Thanks. That sounds good. Jeremy Bícha

Re: Are Their deb Packages for ORCA 48?

2025-02-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
t; "testing" with "experimental". > > You can add experimental to the same line as testing in the new > format. Just separate the words with a space. > > Samuel, do you plan to get Orca 48 into Debian Trixie? Yes. > If so, did you want to upload it to Unsta

Re: Are Their deb Packages for ORCA 48?

2025-02-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
I am hoping there is a direct dot deb > file I can grab? It's on the packages.debian.org site: https://packages.debian.org/experimental/orca Samuel

Are Their deb Packages for ORCA 48?

2025-02-07 Thread Chime Hart
Hi All: I was able to find the binary from experimental, but struggling through those installation instructions, involving "meson _build" Says it cannot find CMAKE when I did install it. Also, similar with at-spi2. To make matters worse DEBIAN had me "modernize-sources" now its a new format-and-

Re: Orca speak up during boot

2024-11-15 Thread john doe
On 11/15/24 02:20, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Kenneth Schack Banner, le mer. 13 nov. 2024 10:39:42 +0100, a ecrit: When the computer is turned on, it will during setup speak out "Starting network manager" and then nothing more, unless i use the hotkeys alt + super + s which works fine. But

Re: Orca speak up during boot

2024-11-14 Thread Kenneth Schack Banner
Thanks for your replies on this Samuel and John Doe. I earlier recived a reply with a fix by Matthew on this list to disable espeakup with the following command: sudo systemctl disable espeakup Best kind regards Kenneth Den 15.11.2024 kl. 08.49 skrev john doe: On 11/15/24 02:20, Samuel Thib

Re: Orca speak up during boot

2024-11-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Kenneth Schack Banner, le mer. 13 nov. 2024 10:39:42 +0100, a ecrit: > When the computer is turned on, it will during setup speak out "Starting > network manager" and then nothing more, unless i use the hotkeys alt + super > + s which works fine. > > But the issue is, during start up, wher

Orca speak up during boot

2024-11-13 Thread Kenneth Schack Banner
re it will speak out "Starting network manager". I have found these places with Orca related startup files: 1. /etc/xdg/autostart/orca-autostart 2. /etc/xdg/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/80_orca-dm-wrapper.conf the 2. is the login screen, which is set to autologin, while the 1. seems to be th

Re: UEFI conflicts with Orca during installation

2024-10-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Realizing just now: Kenneth Schack Banner wrote: > Current workaround is a USB audio card which works, but on three diffrent > machines UEFI seems to block the internal audio? Did you mean that when booting without UEFI, you do get audio working ? Kenneth Schack Banner wrote: > at appearsin Debi

Re: UEFI conflicts with Orca during installation

2024-10-21 Thread Kenneth Schack Banner
Hi Samuel, Sorry for the late reply. I was able to reproduce the error, so here is some deails about the audio card and drivers: The issue is only during the installation, at appearsin Debian 12.7 AMD64, below is sudo lshw -c sound   *-multimedia:0    description: Audio device    pro

Re: UEFI conflicts with Orca during installation

2024-10-21 Thread Kenneth Schack Banner
Schack Banner, le jeu. 10 oct. 2024 11:32:11 +0200, a ecrit: A last, but minor issue is that in the Debian 12.7 installer, if it comes to 90%, then Orca will read it as "9 0" and not "90". (you mean speakup) That's most probably just because the 9 is printed at the end of

Re: UEFI conflicts with Orca during installation

2024-10-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Kenneth Schack Banner, le jeu. 10 oct. 2024 11:32:11 +0200, a ecrit: > A last, but minor issue is that in the Debian 12.7 installer, if it comes to > 90%, then Orca will read it as "9 0" and not "90". (you mean speakup) That's most probably just because the 9 is pr

Re: UEFI conflicts with Orca during installation

2024-10-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Kenneth Schack Banner, le jeu. 10 oct. 2024 11:32:11 +0200, a ecrit: > Current workaround is a USB audio card which works, but on three diffrent > machines UEFI seems to block the internal audio? If the three different machines have similar audio cards, that wouldn't be really surprising. We'd nee

Re: UEFI conflicts with Orca during installation

2024-10-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Kenneth Schack Banner, le jeu. 10 oct. 2024 11:32:11 +0200, a ecrit: > I have just noticed that if my computer uses UEFI boot on USB, then after 30 > seconds in the debian boot menu it wont auto run with speech - I need to > press s to run it Indeed, the timeout is not implemented for the

Re: UEFI conflicts with Orca during installation

2024-10-10 Thread john doe
e to speak. A last, but minor issue is that in the Debian 12.7 installer, if it comes to 90%, then Orca will read it as "9 0" and not "90". You are likely talking about Espeakup and not Orca! ;^) I'm not sure if I understand the link you are making with the type of BIO

UEFI conflicts with Orca during installation

2024-10-10 Thread Kenneth Schack Banner
three diffrent machines UEFI seems to block the internal audio? A last, but minor issue is that in the Debian 12.7 installer, if it comes to 90%, then Orca will read it as "9 0" and not "90". Best kind regards Kenneth

Re: Orca modificer not working

2024-10-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Kenneth Schack Banner, le lun. 07 oct. 2024 15:37:02 +0200, a ecrit: > The Orca modifier key should either be shift, alt, caps or insert, but none > of these works. insert does work for me with debian 12.7 on both LXDE and MATE desktops. Switching to capslock as modified als

Re: Orca modificer not working

2024-10-08 Thread cstrobel crosslink . net
Generally ORCA works best with Mate desktop. I have used it on a Dell laptop with no problem. Maybe you could install the Mate desktop along side the other desktop and login with that and see if it works better. From: Kenneth Schack Banner Sent: Monday

Orca modificer not working

2024-10-07 Thread Kenneth Schack Banner
Hi, I just installed Debian 12.7 bookworm on an Lenovo Thinkpad X240 laptop with the LXDE desktop enovirement and have some troubles using Orca. The Orca modifier key should either be shift, alt, caps or insert, but none of these works. I have tried all + space bar which should launch Orca

Re: Orca/espeakup loud audio on login screen and..

2024-09-26 Thread Kenneth Schack Banner
Hi Jason, I must say i did not know the keyboard had media keys, but they only work after i have logged into and am on the desktop.. So i havent been able to adjust sound level on login screen and also tried to enable/disable screen reader on login screen which also did not work. I have chang

Re: Orca/espeakup loud audio on login screen and..

2024-09-24 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 24/9/24 09:18, Kenneth Schack Banner wrote: When starting the computer, it comes to the login window and the audio is extremely loud, untill logged in, then the audio level is okay / low. What could be the reason that the login screen has one level of audio, but when logged in, its anothe

Orca/espeakup loud audio on login screen and..

2024-09-24 Thread Kenneth Schack Banner
Hi, Im trying to make my sons computer run Linux Debian, but feel like im hitting an issue with Orca/espeakup. I have installed Debian 12.7 with Cinnamon as desktop, why lightdm is the window manager. When starting the computer, it comes to the login window and the audio is extremely loud

Re: testing/sid: upgrade atspi to version 2.53.1-1 break orca on my system

2024-08-22 Thread Chime Hart
from Voxin Allison. I wish I had a good way of letting you hear an audio output, or maybe these errors are in a file? Would be thrilled to post. When examining running processes, which I killed, were i3, xinit, xorg, startxI also re-installed orca OK, just ran startx and tried an alt+f2 orca got

Re: testing/sid: upgrade atspi to version 2.53.1-1 break orca on my system

2024-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le ven. 23 août 2024 00:25:32 +0200, a ecrit: > Chime Hart, le jeu. 22 août 2024 15:15:36 -0700, a ecrit: > > OK, thank you Samuel, so just running an > > apt upgrade at-spi > > didn't do the trick, so please inform what will I type to enjoy your > > changes? > > It's the gir1.2-a

Re: testing/sid: upgrade atspi to version 2.53.1-1 break orca on my system

2024-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Chime Hart, le jeu. 22 août 2024 15:15:36 -0700, a ecrit: > OK, thank you Samuel, so just running an > apt upgrade at-spi > didn't do the trick, so please inform what will I type to enjoy your > changes? It's the gir1.2-atspi-2.0 package that matters. Samuel

Re: testing/sid: upgrade atspi to version 2.53.1-1 break orca on my system

2024-08-22 Thread Chime Hart
OK, thank you Samuel, so just running an apt upgrade at-spi didn't do the trick, so please inform what will I type to enjoy your changes? Thanks in advance Chime

Re: testing/sid: upgrade atspi to version 2.53.1-1 break orca on my system

2024-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le ven. 09 août 2024 10:02:34 +0200, a ecrit: > Jeremy Bícha, le jeu. 08 août 2024 17:26:35 -0400, a ecrit: > > Could someone affected by this issue please file a RC bug against > > at-spi2-core to help others be informed about the bug and avoid > > upgrading the package if possibl

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