booting into graphical mode, I again encountered that my touchpad is broken.

these things broke shortly after the warranty expired.

it turns out my wifi card disappears when I go into graphical mode, which has halted the download. I found this trying to websearch on the system for gnome mousekeys.

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restarting networkmanager got wifi going

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ctrl-alt-tab can be used to switch to the gnome task bar like an application. I can get from there to settings but haven't found how to change settings tabs yet. ctrl-alt-tab again brings me to the menu where there is an option for keyboard shortcuts: ctrl-S for search.

mouse keys is under universal access. I can hilight the switch for it but neither space nor enter actually toggle it.

once hilighted, tab moves inward to the toggle button. it's set! 1113.

the mouse is very very slow. modifiers don't seem to speed it up. I guess that's workable.

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my virtual machine setup is kinda cool, I have virt-manager using the root partition as a raw image, so I can boot windows and linux from the same disk simultaneously without conflict. this took some websearching and is a little confusing a buggy.

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windows is still doing all its updates. maybe come back to this later, unsure