On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 01:34:34PM -0600, Chris Brannon wrote: > Here's a dumb question. Is there any reason that you need a mouse connected? Yeah, for the GUI, when I need to swipe the mouse around the screen to visualize how it's laid out, or at least until Orca irons out some of the quirks, or someone modifies X.org altogether to support the blind. <grins> I was hoping the guys at X.org would take an idea from speech-dispatcher and crack open another channel for audible screen output to a synthesizer/screen reader, bypassing the need to decypher Gnome, KDE, or whatever other desktop manager was in use. Michael