Experiences with Elba

[Tommy Craig]

Hi John, 

	When you are in the application set things the way you want them.
Then press the right thumb key and spacebar. release them and within 5
seconds press the easy access bar all the way down. This saves your settings
for that application. 

You do not need to be root to save settings. If you change settings in the
setup menus, either escape until you get prompted to save changes or just
enter control-q and you will be prompted to save changes. Type a y and wait
about 20 seconds. 

Tommy


-----Original Message-----
From: blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 12:05 AM
To: Linux for blind general discussion
Subject: Re: Experiences with Elba


Tommy,

So how do I change the settings for individual applications? When I go 
to tools and then setup, I get the setup menu and submenus, but there 
is no hint of setting things individually for different applications. 
The manual says nothing about this. 

The Elba does have the su command, but the manual helpfully does not 
give the default password. I really think I have to be root for changes 
in setup to stick.

Thanks,
John

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:38:16PM -0600, Tommy Craig wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> 	The address for the Elba group is:
> 
> Elba-subscribe at smartgroups.com
> 
> 	Please note that the e in Elba is capitolized. The reason that
speech 
> doesn't stay of is that each application saves it's settings 
> separately. This is so you can have grade 2 in one application and not 
> in another one or speech on in one application and not in the others. 
> You can set items in the control center and they should stick unless 
> you override them in an application.
> 
> 	You can enter all the setup menus by typing t for tools and then s 
> for setup. Under this menu you have a number of submenus for setting 
> speech, braille, networking and much more.
> 
> Tommy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:10 PM
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Experiences with Elba
> 
> 
> The Elba is indeed an interesting Linux Braille PDA. However, it takes
> some getting used to. So far, I haven't been able to set it to my 
> preferences. In particular, I can't get it to stop talking. This is 
> very irritating, since even with my cochlear implant turned off i can 
> feel the vibrations. Also, if I switch it to Grade 2, it promptly goes 
> back to computer braille when I change to a different application. I've 
> tried turning off speech in the setup application numerous times, with 
> no result. Maybe I have to be root to change the defaults, but there is 
> no mention of this in the manual.
> 
> I haven't been able to subscribe to the Elba mailing list. The address 
> given here a few days ago doesn't seem to work.
> 
> With all that, the Elba has a nice user interface. It is a good 
> example
> of how the usability generally associated with a GUI can be built into a 
> text-mode interface. 
> 
> John
> 
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