Re: Battery indicator in gnome 3.10

2013-10-14 Thread Robert Cole
Thanks, Joanie! You are awesome! On 10/14/2013 08:52 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: Hi Peter, all. On 10/14/2013 01:41 AM, Peter Vágner wrote: I can see collabsed batery icon on the top pannel however I am unable to see the status I can just identify power manager settings in there. They chang

Re: gnome-shell magnifier

2013-09-10 Thread Robert Cole
results are consistent. So I hope that this will help someone out there! On 09/10/2013 10:15 AM, Joseph Scheuhammer wrote: On 2013-09-10 4:27 AM, Robert Cole wrote: Okay! I Just tested out the bash script idea! It works! Congratulations! And, thanks for sharing this

Re: gnome-shell magnifier

2013-09-10 Thread Robert Cole
I am very excited about it, Kyle! It si definitely going to be great! On 09/10/2013 10:29 AM, Kyle wrote: Well, it will definitely help someone, as I'll be putting it into Sonar shortly. This next Sonar release will be awesome! ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ ___

Re: gnome-shell magnifier

2013-09-10 Thread Robert Cole
Okay! I Just tested out the bash script idea! It works! Here is the script which I wrote to toggle the inverse feature on and off. [BEGIN SCRIPT] #!/bin/bash invStatus=$(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.a11y.magnifier invert-lightness) if [[ "${invStatus}" == "false" ]] then gsettings s

Fedora 19 "Live" and GNOME Shell Magnifier

2013-07-18 Thread Robert Cole
Hello, everyone. I was looking into installing Fedora 19 over my current Fedora 18 system, but I ran into a problem. I used the GNOME Shell Magnifier to go through the installation process of Fedora 18 a number of months ago; everything went very smoothly. I went to enable the magnifier on t

Re: Gnome menu vol 3

2012-08-28 Thread Robert Cole
Tanel, if you are using GNOME Shell, then you may want to look at this GNOME Shell extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/6/applications-menu/ This page will give you some information about GNOME Shell Extensions: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Extensions It creates a GNOME 2.x-st

Re: Gnome menu again

2012-08-25 Thread Robert Cole
Hello, Tanel. Rather than using GNOME Shell, you may want to try the GNOME Classic desktop (often referred to as the GNOME Fallback Session). This may be more familiar to you. If you are using Ubuntu, simply run: sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback Then when at your login screen you

Re: Gnome menu

2012-08-25 Thread Robert Cole
Hello. The Super key is typically used as a term for the Windows key on a standard keyboard. When an application is open, GNOME Shell displays a tab-like icon right next to the Activities Overview button on the top panel. This icon displays a thumbnail image for an application's icon as well

Re: Keybindings for the Magnifier

2012-06-26 Thread Robert Cole
Thank you very much for that, Joseph. That is exactly what I was looking for. This will make things much easier, hopefully, rather than having to go into GNOME Control Center to set the keybindings each time I use a live system. I really appreciate you taking the time to write me back about th

Keybindings for the Magnifier

2012-06-23 Thread Robert Cole
Hello there! I am curious as to whether or not it is possible to set the magnifier's keybindings (turn on/off, zoom in/out) by setting keys via the command line. I ask this because if this is possible, it would make things a lot more convenient in using a live system (at least in my case) as I

Re: GNOME Shell magnifier and Keybindings

2012-06-15 Thread Robert Cole
for me (I don't need the fancy features of expensive commercial zoomers). Take care. On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Robert Cole <mailto:rkcole72...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello, Joseph, and thanks for your reply. I am sorry for my delayed response. Doing something li

Re: GNOME Shell magnifier and Keybindings

2012-06-15 Thread Robert Cole
Hello, Joseph, and thanks for your reply. I am sorry for my delayed response. Doing something like SHIFT+Scroll Up to Zoom In and SHIFT+Scroll Down to Zoom Out would be a great idea, if possible. I have seen magnification software which only makes use of the scroll wheel for zooming, but this

GNOME Shell magnifier and Keybindings

2012-06-08 Thread Robert Cole
Hello, everyone. I was just curious as to whether or not it is possible (or would be possible) to use the scroll wheel on my mouse in combination with a key on my keyboard (e.g. the Control key) to zoom in or out on the magnifier. I ask this because many of the key bindings which I used for Z

Re: Announcing Orca v3.4.2

2012-05-14 Thread Robert Cole
Taht si great news! Will this come in Ubuntu's updates, or will I need to get it from Git? Hope all is well, and thanks for all of the hard work. On 05/14/2012 03:29 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: = What is Orca? = Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible scre

GNOME Shell Magnifier and CPU Usage Under Fedora 16

2012-04-08 Thread Robert Cole
Hello, everyone. I use the htop program at times to monitor processes which are running on my system. I am currently running Fedora 16 (along with the latest updates), and I noticed something taking place while panning (while zoomed) with the GNOME Shell Magnifier. When the magnifier is zoom

Re: GNOME Shell Magnifier Inverse (Negative) Feature

2012-04-03 Thread Robert Cole
/2012 08:36 PM, Robert Cole wrote: Hello, everyone. Hi Robert, Joseph is the best one to answer some of your questions, but meanwhile I will answer the others. I have recently begun to exclusively use Fedora on my desktop system. I am now running Fedora 16, and I was wondering if

GNOME Shell Magnifier Inverse (Negative) Feature

2012-03-30 Thread Robert Cole
Hello, everyone. I have recently begun to exclusively use Fedora on my desktop system. I am now running Fedora 16, and I was wondering if there is any way of testing the inverse feature of the GNOME Shell Magnifier (if it has yet been implemented)? I ask this because I would heavily use the Ne

Re: GNOME Shell Magnifier Advanced Settings and Testing

2012-01-27 Thread Robert cole
Hello, Joseph. As concerning the Mouse Position Polling under Unity, this was done through the Compiz eZoom settings. I don't think I did a good job at clarifying. When I made the changes to the GNOME Shell magnifier code, I did this while I was in Unity. I then logged out of Unity and went ba

GNOME Shell Magnifier Advanced Settings and Testing

2012-01-26 Thread Robert cole
Hello again, everyone. As you may have probably guessed by my heavy torrent of e-mails (sorry), I am really trying to do some testing with the GNOME shell Magnifier. I saw some screenshots of a more advanced dialog for magnifier settings on the GNOME Shell magnification page [1]. I also read

Smoother Panning in GNOME Shell Magnifier

2012-01-25 Thread Robert cole
Hello, everyone. Well, I did a slight bit of tinkering with the GNOME Shell Magnifier settings today (I love that I can tinker in Linux!). I am not trying to complain by any means, so I hope that this does not sound as such. I have been trying out Unity2D in Ubuntu 11.10, which I recently in

Re: just a test

2012-01-05 Thread Robert Cole
Hello, Gary. I am subscribed to this list, and I received your message. It looks like you're still a member. :) There have been a steady flow of messages coming to this list over the past few weeks, though. I have only been a member of this list a month or so now, though. Take care. On 01

GNOME Shell Zoom (Possible Bugs?))

2012-01-04 Thread Robert Cole
Hello, everyone. Well, I finally just went for it and installed Linux Mint 12 today, and I am glad that I did. I am loving GNOME Shell. It is very fast and responsive. I want to note that I am using the current NVIDIA 173 driver on my system. I got the Zoom feature up and working pretty quic

Re: Can the community work with Gnome to improve GTK+ a11y?

2012-01-01 Thread Robert Cole
I hope that it is okay for me to reply here as well. I am not a developer or anything..just an end user for the time being. One example of these greyed out menus is in Totem. Under the Movie menu, two menu items are greyed out: Eject and Play/Pause. I use a screen magnifier at times, so the gr

Re: Frist Impressions of GNOME 3's Zoom Feature

2011-12-21 Thread Robert Cole
Hello again, Joseph, everyone! I just tested Fedora 16 on a live USB system as a possible candidate for replacing Linux Mint. I am so amazed with how responsive and fast GNOME Shell is! I tested the magnifier on this system, and it still lags on the Applications tab of the Activities overvie

Re: Frist Impressions of GNOME 3's Zoom Feature

2011-12-15 Thread Robert Cole
wrote: On 12 December 2011 19:52, Robert Cole wrote: Today I finally had some time to test out a live USB Linux Mint 12 system. I am sure that this is probably not a native setting in GNOME 3 by default, but an extension called noa11y was enabled by default. Once I turned this off I set the

Re: Frist Impressions of GNOME 3's Zoom Feature

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Cole
will have to try and install the current proprietary driver and see if that makes a difference. As soon as I get a chance to test it out I will write back. Thanks for the suggestion. On 12/12/2011 6:27 PM, Jason White wrote: Robert Cole wrote: When I open up the Activities Overview (I am

Frist Impressions of GNOME 3's Zoom Feature

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Cole
Hello, everyone. I wrote before with some questions about screen magnification in GNOME 3. Since then I tested GNOME 3 on a Linux Mint 12 virtual machine using VirtualBox with good results. Today I finally had some time to test out a live USB Linux Mint 12 system. I am sure that this is prob

Re: draft for Friends of GNOME campaign

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Cole
PM, Robert Cole wrote: I have never edited a Wiki or anything of the like, but I have always wanted to create some tutorials and documents to help people who want to make the jump to Linux. When I first started using Linux, my learning experience came from browsing forums and from the results of

Re: draft for Friends of GNOME campaign

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Cole
On 11/29/11 12:50 AM, Robert Cole wrote: Hello. I was unsure as to whether or not my reply to this post would be helpful, but I figured that, just in case it could be, I would respond. I fell in love with Linux when I took my first Linux class back in 2006. I knew nothing about accessibility at

Re: draft for Friends of GNOME campaign

2011-11-28 Thread Robert Cole
Hello. I was unsure as to whether or not my reply to this post would be helpful, but I figured that, just in case it could be, I would respond. I fell in love with Linux when I took my first Linux class back in 2006. I knew nothing about accessibility at that time, but the professor of the c

Re: GNOME 3/Shell Magnifier(s)

2011-11-26 Thread Robert Cole
Hello, Joseph and Pinheiro (my apologies if I made a spelling error). I just tested the Zoom feature in Linux Mint 12 in a virtual machine and I found that it worked quite smoothly. I will probably install Mint 12 in the near future so that I can test things without the restrictions of a virtu

GNOME 3/Shell Magnifier(s)

2011-11-24 Thread Robert Cole
Hello, everyone.; I have been a blind Linux user since Ubuntu 6.06. I am looking forward to see what lies ahead for the different desktop environments. I have grown accustomed to GNOME 2.x, but I am really looking forward to getting to try out GNOME 3/Shell. I have a very quick question: I