Joseph: Emacspeak <http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net>, provides a kind of "audio desktop". It is an extension of emacs, that provides auditory feedback as you work with emacs and its many extensions. Two such extensions that have been speech-enabled with emacspeak are dismal (a spreadsheet) and w3(a web browser). Moreover, emacspeak will speech-enable terminal and shell windows, thereby allowing you to do all your administrative tasks, as well. See emacspeak's documentation for a complete list of emacs extensions that have thus far been speech-enabled. I think you will find all the productivity tools you need. Regarding x-windows: There is an application in the works called Gnopernacus, which will speech-enable the Gnome desktop. Also, there is support in emacspeak for the Sawfish window manager, but I have no experience of using it. -Dave
