Re: [orca-list] Braille cursor question

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Yep - from the BrlTTY ChangeLog, I see this for 3.10:

"   BrlAPI changes:
      Now at release 0.5.2.
      Present a blinking cursor if that's what the user has configured.
"

Will

Michael Whapples wrote:
> You might have it there, my slackware system is using brltty 3.9 and my 
> debian system has 3.10. I seemed to have the feeling that the cursor was 
> generated by orca and brltty had no knowledge that those dots were 
> actually a cursor, I must have been wrong.
>
> Michael Whapples
>
> On 04/12/08 14:24, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hi Michael:
> >
> > I believe the support of the blinking cursor was a more recent 
> > addition to BrlTTY/BrlAPI.  Is it possible you might be using 
> > different versions of BrlTTY between the two operating systems?
> >
> > Will
> >
> > Michael Whapples wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I have noticed something rather odd since I installed debian on my 
> > > laptop. Orca in debian seems to be respecting the setting of the 
> > > cursor in Brltty. By this I mean I normally set the cursor to 
> > > blinking in brltty but orca doesn't follow this on my desktop running 
> > > slackware, but debian seems to be using a blinking cursor in orca. To 
> > > check exactly if it was what I thought it was I changed the brltty 
> > > setting on my laptop to blinking cursor as no and then orca's Braille 
> > > cursor didn't blink, and when I changed brltty back to blinking 
> > > cursor it returned in orca. What's going on? Is this a debian 
> > > specific patch and if so could it be sent upstream to be included in 
> > > standard Orca?
> > >
> > > Michael Whapples
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