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

[Mallard <mallard ilgerone net>]

Peter,

It worked, and now braille is ok...

Many thanks indeed. That solved my problem.
Ciao,
Ollie




Il 02/11/2015 16:37, Peter Vágner ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
> Unfortunatelly as further discussion on this topic indicates at this
> point I am not sure what exactly is needed on your system.
> The bit which relates to changing which virtual terminal orca reports to
> brltty should no longer be necessery with the version of orca you do
> have installed.
>
> So if it will not help you then please do ask more.
>
> Can you at least make some basic stuff done with your machine with
> speech only with braille non functional or do you require braille for
> all times?
>
> I am thinking that some of us power users might help you out to look at
> this if you can manage to get us to connect into your machine somehow.
>
> In any case if you are unsure please just ask and we'll try to be helpfull.
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
>
> Dňa 02.11.2015 o 15:16 Mallard napísal(a):
> > Hello Peter,
> >
> > Many thanks. I surely don't have the ability to go about making all
> > these changes (I'm still pretty much a Windows user, wanting to
> > migrate, but still not quite there...), but with you instructions and
> > a little help from my family I should make it.
> >
> > Thanks again. I'll report back when I'm done.
> > Ciao,
> > Ollie
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Il 02/11/2015 13:29, Peter Vágner ha scritto:
> > > 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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