Speech is faster and easier in a console than on an accessible terminal inside a Desktop Environment like MATE. Also for older computers, it's much faster because you aren't running a visual system like Xorg to produce a graphical environment.
If you can use a text email program and other text based programs that work in console, for many people there's no coming back to the bloat of X windows graphical environment.
I use ttytter for Twitter but unfortunately there's no Facebook text mode application. But I can live without you Facebook.
Regards,
David
On Sun, Dec 25, 2022, 12:18 K0LNY_Glenn <glenn@ervin.email> wrote:
I've only used a terminal, I'm unfamiliar with the benefits of one or more
consoles over terminal windows.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Carmickle" <frank@carmickle.com>
To: "Debian Accessibility Team" <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2022 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: tty13-24
> On Dec 21, 2022, at 6:42 AM, Geoff Shang <geoff@QuiteLikely.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022, Frank Carmickle wrote:
>
>> Interestingly, my sid system hasn't changed from the old behavior of
>> using right alt for directly accessing tty13-tty24. My newly installed
>> bullseye has me using left alt and shift to get there. Anyone know how to
>> revert to old behavior?
>
> You need to put the following in /etc/default/keyboard:
>
> XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch"
>
> this has not changed since previous releases and I've had to add it there
> to them too.
>
> You can run
>
> setupcon -k
Wow! Thank you.
Does anyone know if this made it in to any debian changelog?
Thanks much,
--FC
>
> to implement the change.
>
> Interestingly, the left alt key with shift still works after this change.
>
> HTH,
> geoff.
>