Re: [orca-list] orca hangs when braille is enabled

[John Covici <covici ccs covici com>]

In 5.5 they tried to change Brltty to use polykit (sp), but there is a
line currently commented out in brltty.conf to change it back to using
the apikey.

On Wed, 24 May 2017 17:29:48 -0400,
Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> Le 24/05/2017 à 22:18, Vojtěch Polášek a écrit :
> > Hi,
>
> Hi Vojtěch
>
> > I discvered that I have a problem with Orca whenever I want to use
> > braille. I am running ARch Linux, Orca from master, Brltty 5.5.
>
> Have you also tried with BRLTTY 5.4 ?
>
> > Brltty is running under Systemd. It works because if I switch to textual
> > console, I can feel braille output. When I am in graphical session, it
> > always shows "screen not in text mode".
> >
> > When I enable braille in Orca settings and restart Orca, Orca refuses to
> > start. It just prints
> >
> > some-timestamp something seems to hung
>
> Is the xbrlapi daemon running correctly ? Have you tried BRLTTY
> 5.5 on Debian for example ?
>
> > orca --debug doesn't give any interesting information.
> >
> > What could be the problem? I guess there is some problem with Orca
> > talking to brltty, but where?
>
> Orca doesn't change is braille management for a long time so I
> think the problem should be in BRLTTY side.
>
> Best regards.
> -- 
> Alex ARNAUD
> Visual-Impairment Project Manager
> Hypra - "Humanizing technology"
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