Re: [orca-list] Fwd: Problems with Sonar and BRLTTY

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
If peter is right, joanie will need to address this since it looks like
either orca or brltty isn't working as it should. I'm glad someone
caught this or I would've continued to say that it works. This will get
fixed soon I'm pretty sure of that.
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 11/02/2015 07:03 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Sorry for the double posting.
>
> I've been talking to Kendell on IRC where he reminded me that this might
> have been already addressed at orca's side.
>
> I have found the following commit by Samuel Thibauld
> eab71af21703334faeac9f615d9171aa9284c077
>
> It adds ability to retrieve current vt number by printing $XDG_VTNR .
> Unfortunatelly on my system this appears not to be reliable enough. My X
> is currently running on VT1 i.e. I can switch to it by pressing
> ctrl+alt+1 and launching gnome terminal and executing
> echo $XDG_VTNR
> prints out number 2.
>
> Unfortunatelly I don't know more details I am just afraid people will
> still need to resort to overriding this in the config file as described
> in my previous message.
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
> On 02.11.2015 at 13:29 Peter Vágner wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I apologize for not reading sonar support list regularly, otherwise I
> > might have posted correct answer earlier.
> >
> > I guess really the issue is with the fact orca assumes your X server
> > running on VT7. Orca needs to communicate this to brltty. On Arch
> > linux and derivatives GDM 3 starts on first free virtual console that
> > is VT1 in most cases. It might be similar on sonar as well I guess.
> > To change this in orca, create or open a file
> > ~/.local/share/orca/orca-customizations.py
> > and put the following content to the bottom of that file.
> >
> > import orca.settings
> > orca.settings.tty = 1
> >
> >
> > Doing it this way is easier as setting up GDM to spawn X on another
> > console requires rebuild of GDM package.
> >
> > Also have you added your user to the brlapi group and does a file
> > /etc/brlapi.key exist on your system? This allows orca to talk to brltty.
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > On 02.11.2015 at 10:50 Mallard wrote:
> > > Hello list,
> > >
> > > I'm posting here a message I sent to the Sonar Support list, because
> > > Kendell suggested it might be a metter requiring investigation on the
> > > part of Orca people...
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for your help.
> > > Ciao,
> > > Ollie
> > >
> > > ********
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > After some struggling, we managed to install Sonar 2015.4 on my pc.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, I can't work without braille, so I tried to launch
> > > BRLTTY.
> > >
> > > It detects my braille display, and works correctly in consoles, but not
> > > with Orca, although braille is enabled in Orca Preferences.
> > >
> > > My husband found a post on the BRLTTY forum, where someone reports the
> > > same kind or problem in Arch. The person says that he discovered that
> > > the problem is due to Arch starting in Console 1, while Orca starts in
> > > Console 7. By having Arch start in Console 7, the problem was solved.
> > >
> > > Sounds interesting, but... Does anyone know whether it is the same with
> > > Sonar and, in this case, how do I have Sonar start in Console 7?
> > >
> > > Thsnks, ciao,
> > > Ollie
> > >
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