First you should make sure accessability is enabled by using the command: gconftool-2 --type bool --set /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true I have the following in my .xinitrc exec gnome-session On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Alex Snow wrote: > Hi all. > My first question is kind of stupid. How do you go about starting gnome? > and second, which voice for festival does gnopernicus use by default? >