Recently someone mentioned echoing 7 to the silent variable in speakup: echo 7 > /sys/accessibility/speakup/silent It seems to kill speakup on a per-user basis, in such a way that pressing the print-screen key restores it to normal use. The speakup user guide names that variable, but contains no other information about it. What other values besides 7 can I echo to that variable, and what will they do? Thanks, Chuck -- Chuck in Hudson. My website is hallenbeck.ftml.net, and my Jabber ID is chuckh1 at jabber.org ----- I'm an early riser: I normally wake up about o dark hundred hours.