Doug
Twin was shipped with grml 1.0 but is not in the latest grml-2008.11. This means you can install it directly with
root# aptitude install twin
This will come with some form of default configuration for you.
But I'm confused. If you don't want or need a gui then why do you have to launch one at all? Can you not stay in a login shell and use screen for multiple windows? Or, if you use emacs, then you can have very closely similar environments in any situation. That is emacs in the login shell, on a linux gui and on Windows XP or Vista behave in a closely related manner. Are the text browsers lynx, w3m, links or edbrowse not sufficient for what you are doing. w3m in particular has emacs integration.
Best Wishes Moss
On 10/01/2009, Doug Smith wrote: I have found something that I think shows some promise for use by all the people who use speakup and do not wish to go to a graphical user environment in order just to get on line.
The program is called twin. This stands for text mode windowing environment. It can be found at http://linuz.sns.it/~max/twin/ etc.