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

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,

I apologize for the noyse I've caused.

It turned out I was pressing incorrect keystrokes and what $XDG_VTNR 
returns is indeed correct on my machine.

I am sorry for causing more trouble than there might be.

Greetings

Peter
On 02.11.2015 at 14:11 kendell clark wrote:
> 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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