Re: [orca-list] brltty, ubuntu and orca

["Christian" <christian08 runbox com>]

Hi,
Yes, you can have it started at boot.
To do this, edit /etc/default/brltty and change runbrltty=no to runbrltty=yes.
Hope it helps!
Best regards,
Christian


On 2008-09-06 at 16:57 Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> I hope somebody can direct me to this information.  Is there a way to
> start brltty automatically when starting orca in ubuntu? On my debin box,
> I have brltty starting at bootup; it works in the consoles and once I
> start orca it also works there. But in ubuntu I don't see how to start
> brltty at bootup; I've resorted to starting brltty with "sudo" in a
> console and then logging in to orca. This kind of works, but results in
> some odd noises and extra characters from the braille display (braillelite
> 40 in this case) a bit reminiscent of what happens when you end up with
> more than one instance of brltty except that I'm not having extra
> characters typed when I input commands or edit fields. I suspect there
> must be a better way to do this. I am using ubuntu on my Mac in vmware
> fusion and am careful to make sure that brltty is not running in my mac
> terminal and that the usbserial connection is connected in the ubuntu
> virtual machine and not anywhere else. Any help with this would be
> appreciated.
>
> thanks.
>
>
> --
> Cheryl
>
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
>
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