Hi, Since you ask for advice in general, I would recommend maybe trying a different window manager or desktop environment. Cinnamon is nice especially because of its visual appeal, and for its default visual similarity to the traditional Windows desktop; but not so much for customising stuff. What do you think about trying a more easily configurable desktop environment or window manager? I myself like keybinds a lot, and DEs like LXDE and WMs such as xmonad and dwm allow one to easily configure them — you can find a lot more about DEs and WMs like these in the respective Arch Wiki pages. As a bonus, they're also lighter, faster, and harder to crash. Regards, João Miguel

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 02:24:59AM +0200, Jeanette C. via arch-general wrote:

Hi Joao, thanks for that. That sounds like practical and sound advise. I'll give those a go for a start. Presently, I'm back with MATE, which works OK, but something light, fast and robust would be great. :)

I do wonder if a tiling window manager would be ideal under these circumstances, given that most are broadly configurable and designed around keyboard navigation. What I can't attest to is how well they cooperate with assistive technologies, and my knowledge on the subject is about 25 years out of date. However, at the end of the day there's always GNOME, which seems to have more resources than anyone with regards to accessibility and is actively tested with screen readers and Braille displays. Of course it also isn't exactly known for being "light", but there it is.

stumpwm was written entirely in lisp and is text-oriented. I almost got that talking earlier though. Mate I got talking on archlinux and tried to get gnome talking once installed too but that didn't work. If I find out how to get gnome talking using archlinux and orca after a basic command line installation in which espeak is working and if I find out how to contribute to the archlinux wiki I think I'll write an article on how to do that and contribute. This for my own future reference and to help any other interested people in the future. On Tue, 29 Aug 2017, beest wrote:

Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:27:08 From: beest Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] Cinnamon desktop and keybindings

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 02:24:59AM +0200, Jeanette C. via arch-general wrote:

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Hi Joao, thanks for that. That sounds like practical and sound advise. I'll give those a go for a start. Presently, I'm back with MATE, which works OK, but something light, fast and robust would be great. :)

I do wonder if a tiling window manager would be ideal under these circumstances, given that most are broadly configurable and designed around keyboard navigation. What I can't attest to is how well they cooperate with assistive technologies, and my knowledge on the subject is about 25 years out of date.

However, at the end of the day there's always GNOME, which seems to have more resources than anyone with regards to accessibility and is actively tested with screen readers and Braille displays. Of course it also isn't exactly known for being "light", but there it is.

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