Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote: > Ok. So I got my fresh wheezy install done in another vm. Turns out > that gnome speaks, but isn't very talkative. What I mean is that for > example ctrl+alt+d gives no indication I'm on the desktop. Pressing > alt+f1 tells me I'm in a menu, but arrowing up/down/left/right gives > no speech. That's all by design. You're running gnome-Shell, I expect, and the keyboard operations are different. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet Note specifically that it's a new kind of desktop environment that dispenses with the "desktop" metaphor.
