How much total memory do you have? If you can, I recommend 1024 MB or more for Vinux. Especially if you want to use the Libre Office. I have had little trouble with Libre Office to perform most tasks. In some features it is nicer than their Microsoft Office counterpart. For instance, in Calc, cells that have text too big for the size of the cell will announce something like, "6 characters too long". On the other hand orca with calc and writer do not yet have all of the features that JAWS with Excel and Word have, like Title announcement. We will be working on these type of things within Vinux soon.
*Don Marang*Vinux Software Development Coordinator - vinuxproject.org <http://www.vinuxproject.org/> There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.
-- Dean Kamen On 4/7/2011 1:04 PM, Homme, James wrote:
Hi Alex, I think that a lot of this happened for me when I installed Vinux. I made a shortcut and put it on my desktop. When I run it, I get into a VMWare window. From there, I press Control+G. I hear some sort of startup message and it asks me for my password. On my system, i have it using 500 Meg of RAM. I have Vista. Should I boost it up to 650? I'm asking because it seems to me that key strokes on Vinux are pretty sluggish. The next thing I need to learn over there is all about the programs it comes with, then I need to figure out what I want to install. I would like to see if I can work over there and be satisfied enough to have it not matter whether I am in Linux or Windows. I want to see how good Orca is, for example, on the web as aompared to, say, NVDA or JAWS. The same with spreadsheets and tables in word processing documents. Jim Jim Homme, Usability Services, Phone: 412-544-1810. Skype: jim.homme Highmark recipients, Read my accessibility blog. Discuss accessibility here. Accessibility Wiki: Breaking news and accessibility advice -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Midence Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 10:00 AM To: programmingblind Subject: Steps to Vinux virtual without a CD Hi, all, This is in response to all the Vinux discussions on unzipping and in compressing and so forth of Vinux iso's for virtualization. Had to make my own thread due to digest mode so, sorry about that if it messes with things. First things first, you don't have to unzip or uncompress anything. The .iso file can be used for your virtual machine without needing to be burned to a CD. It's the only way I do it and it makes Vinux run faster for me for some reason. So, here is what to do: 1. Obtain and install the latest copy of VMware. 2. Download .iso file of prefered version of Vinux. 3. Save the file to a directory called "Vinux Source" or something in your root directory. (I do that because it saves typing and/or time in browsing for the file in later steps.) 4. Launch Vmware and tab to "creaqte new virtual machine." 5. Arrow to "install from iso on hard drive" (probably worded slightly differently since I am going from memory). 6. When prompted, browse to the .iso file you saved to your hard drive. 7. Hit next and then tell Vmware that you are installing a Linux operating system and that the variant is Ubuntu. 8. Next should bring you to the hardware settings. You want to give it around 650 MB of Ram. (This may vary by person since some Windows Versions are more resource intensive than others. You don't want Vinux using more than about 33% of your ram. You need at least 512 though.) 9. Still in hardware settings, let Vinux have 20 gb of hard drive. 10. Hit finish. 11. Give it some time to make all the directories and files and things. It should launch the Virtual Machine right after creating it and it shouild start talking with espeak's voice soon. You will probably have to crank your volume way up to hear Orca at first though because of the volume settings. 12. Once you hear orca start talking, you will also hear the Gnome start sound and then you will hear the Orca preferences dialog come up. From here, first order of business is to crank up the sound volume. 13. Alt f1 to open the "main menu" which is extremely similar to the windows start menu. arrow up to System and right to get into the submenu. Arrow down to preferences and hit right arrow for that submenu. Arrow up to sounds and press enter. Tab till you are in the slider to increase output volume. I usually have mine set to 64200. Once that's done, you can close that window with alt f4. NOw, you can mess around with Vinux by launching applications, tweaking settings with ORca and so forth. To get to the command line, you can either alt control t to open up a terminal in Gnome (the x-windows system that provides the gui) or you can control alt f1 to get to a console completely outside of the GUI. Speakup is the screen reader there. Alt f7 takes you back to Gnome. When you are done with trying Vinux out, you can alt f1 and arrow up to shutdown and select "Shut down the computer." It till close down your virtual machine and close VmWare when it's done. Hope this helps, Alex M __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. 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