speakup goes oops/bye-bye on wheezy

[Jason White]

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.