Basically it works like the OSX terminal does. It just spawns a
shell inside a gui window. So yes, it can work with all of those.
Though I much prefer bash to everything, or TCSH.
On 8/18/2011 8:15 PM, Katherine Moss wrote:
Oh. So as oppose to windows, when you call a console,
the desktop running on top of it disappears? That’s odd.
And can Gnome Terminal run all of the shells like KSH,
Onquist, and all of those?
Ctrl+Alt+F2 and Alt+F7. But you can get to Gnome terminal
with Ctrl+Alt+T, and if you are going to be running Gnome
anyway I figure you might as well use it. There's some nice
features in it that aren't present in your standard console.
On 8/18/2011 10:03 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
You can get to a console thing from gnome, but it's easier
(IMO) to hit alt+f2 or whatever to switch to consoles. I
believe f7 was gnome.
On 8/18/2011 7:57 PM, Katherine Moss wrote:
So say I’m in SuSE, and I’m using Gnome, and then all of a
sudden, I want to do something real quick in say, KSH.
What’s the best way to call shells from Gnome, or are those
shells accessible via the Gnome terminal?
Yes, one very broad generalization I'll hazard to make
about Linux in general is that many tools are narrower in
scope than the one-size-fits-all applications that are more
prominent on Windows. If you knew you were going to only be
working in Gnome exclusively, Orca would really be all you'd
need to know about. The Gnome Terminal would be roughly
comparable to what you think of as cmd.exe. But there are
many Linux environments where a desktop like Gnome is
unnecessary or even counterproductive, in which case you can
run a terminal without their additional overhead. For this,
though, you'd use Speakup for your access needs. You end up
researching and trying more focused packages in Linux so as
to piece together the combination that's ideal for the
activities you're doing, and this is why Linux is one of
those things that takes more to set up right, but when you
set it up right, oftentimes it's about as good as it gets.
Ultimately a practice in cost/benefit analysis.
On 8/18/2011 9:27 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
Orca -sort of- works in the terminal. What most people do,
or at least what I did was just use speakup for the consoles
and orca for gnome.
On 8/18/2011 7:25 PM, Katherine Moss wrote:
Oh. So then if Gnome works with SuSE, (for I’d like to
be acquainted with that distribution), does Bash, KSH,
ZSH, and Onquist also work with Orca as well? I’m all
confused over the command line in Linux and it’s
accessibility features. You know how in windows when you
call CMD, you get input via the same interface (JAWS,
Window-Eyes), as you get when working with desktop and Gui
components? Does the same go for Linux? I ask because is
not Emac Speak different from Orca, and depending on which
environment you want, you have to keep switching between
them? If so, then it sounds kind of cumbersome, doesn’t
it?
You are correct, it's only Gnome for Orca users for now.
As for what Unity is, it's just a different spin on shell
management. Has more features for netbooks and touch
interfaces, given their growing prominence.
On 8/18/2011 8:51 PM, Katherine Moss wrote:
Now I’m trying to take steps to get myself acquainted
with Linux, and I’m just curious, what is the unity
desktop? I’ve never heard of it, but I never bothered to
look it up since I’ve heard on various threads here
probably, that Gnome is the only accessible desktop for
linux out there. Can somebody correct me on that if it’s
not true?
When I installed 11.04 I installed it using the
accessibility if you do that it defaults to the classic
ubuntu so it works perfect. I found that Ubuntu is only
getting better I hope 11.10 stays that way.
ken
At work we use a couple of Ubuntu machines which I use
with ORCA. We're currently on the 8.04 baseline but they
are being upgraded to 11.04.
As I understand it this release includes the new unity
desktop by default but you can use the older style Gnome
desktop. Does anyone know if this is write and how you
go about it?
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