Hi all,
I use Arch Linux as my primary OS nowadays but I decided to use my old MacBook Air as laptop due to battery issues on my Windows/Linux laptop to check if it is possible to use MacOs for QA and Web Development tasks as a totally blind user.
I have some questions regarding terminal use with VoiceOver.
For example:
Is it really possible to use Tmux with VoiceOver?
I encounter that it is hard to use it fast enough as I can do it in Linux.
Session titles and windows numbers aren't announced, for example: "Coding 0 ZSH".
When removing characters that I typed with backspace key, I hear space instead of the character that I am removing.
I guess there is no sense in contacting Apple Accessibility about that? What do you think?
In Linux Tmux works perfectly with Orca.
By Vsevolod Popov, 9 October, 2022
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I'm a screen person when I've needed a multiplexer but frankly I think the problem here is VoiceOver itself. Try either using tdsr or a Linux VM with your screen reader of choice (my preference is for BRLTTY in textmode).
Slightly OT but what is your preferred desktop environment? I continue to look for choice of alternatives but macOS still remains king for me at the moment despite VoiceOver's many, many flaws.
Desktop environment and VM.
Hi.
I use Gnome currently, Mate isn't really good in terms of some things.
Also Gnome and KDE are planning to improve their accessibility.
But I rely mostly on Terminal, I try to do most of tasks there and the only thing I use GUI for is to use VSCode and browser.
As far as VM, what hyperviser do you use? I use Qemu on Linux but haven't tryed using it on Mac.
My experience with it was really bad on Windows, but I think it will be as good as on Linux in terms of Mac because they are both Unix systems.
If you use Qemu, how did you manage to connect a braille display to a VM?
What do you mean "I am more screen person"?
screen
Hi.
Screen is different multiplexer for UNIX systems.
Hypervisor
I mostly use VMware (Fusion). It's compatible with other VMware software. UTM provides a quite nice and accessible frontend for qemu which you might look at. I use qemu only when I want a curses-based textmode VM from the command line when I am messing about with other operating systems but the GUI isn't native IIRC. VirtualBox used to be an option too, but seemingly not any more. vftool is a good way to get textmode Linux using Apple's native virtualization.framework hypervisor including Apple Silicon, but the flexibility is very limited and no direct USB support. Ditto bhyve/xhyve. If you are going to use GUI Linux I think you're going to go with either PMware or UTM.
Are you using iTerm2?
I found the exact same frustrating behavior but only with iTerm2. I was happily surprised when it just worked (tm) in standard terminal.
No
I didn't install iTerm2. I start tmux using the standard Mac Terminal.