Okay, did a little searching and found the sleep command, which I used to confirm that Orca is getting launched when I try running the script I'm using. In fact, it seems that Orca remains active even once I close the appliaction I launched and the script finishes, and only gets unloaded when I logout of the tty that executed the script with sudo kill on orca's process ID apparantly failing. As for spd-say, I'm not sure I'm using it right, but trying to run spd-say "hello world" or spd-say -O just results in the console hanging on a blank line until I ctrl+c. Granted, doing the same from a KNoppix live session, where the script works as expect, spd-say "hello world" does nothing and spd-say -O prings espeak-ng to the screen. Forgot to check at-spi while I was booted into Debian, but it sounds like the problem might be with speech dispatcher. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list