I tried the water and nearly lost my toes. Having managed to get droplinegnome installed, I ran gdm since startx wouldn't work and got logged in. I rn a gnome-terminal session and ran orca -t and tried configuring things. I learned that speech was not available nor for that matter was anything else except braille and braille monitor. So having found that out this is the latest offering by droplinegnome I could either get the missing pieces from gnome.org and try to run a hybrid system or remove all of it from the hard drive. I chose to remove it all from the hard drive thinking that would involve less trouble. Wrong! After a successful uninstall, I couldn't use ssh anymore on the system. reinstalling the ssh package had no effect. I had to do a complete system reinstall to fix that problem. Something else with slackware, making an install without alot of the graphical stuff is risky. I couldn't create /etc/lilo.conf using the system install and got an initrd system created for me in the /boot directory. Slackware didn't even tell me it was doing that either. Another thing with slackware is that on some of the mnus where it appears next to impossible to position the cursor; hitting home key followed by space will change the colors of the first entry in the table then you can move up and down with the cursor and need to hit the spacebar to check items. This works well when selecting startup services but doesn't work when selecting time zones and does work well when selecting a modem link.
