Re: [orca-list] Braille cursor question

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Guess what, I am tracking slackware-current on my desktop and I just did 
an update and brltty 3.10 was one of the updates and now I have a 
blinking cursor in Orca. I think this answers it for sure.

Michael Whapples

On 04/12/08 20:57, Willie Walker wrote:
> 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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