On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote: ... an alternative could be to fix speakup to > simply watch CK and disable itself as long as long as somebody is > logged in. Users need to be able to press Ctrl+Alt+F1 at any time and get to a speeking console. It can't ever go away. Bill