Re: [orca-list] getting input from braille keyboard

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thanks Jean-Philippe. Unfortunately that's not quite working for me
yet. Starting xbrlapi from, the gnome command prompt (alt-f2) from
within any application switches the braille display from following the
screen cursor around to displaying the single word "unknown". I'm not
sure yet from where I should launch xbrlapi and whether, for example,
I need to run it for every new window.
thanks in advance for further  pointers
Peter

Jean-Philippe MENGUAL writes:
> Hi,
>
> Have you installed xbrlapi on your distro? Is it running? It is this app which handles te braille
> keyboard input with X.
>
> If your keyboard runs features instead of dots, dont you have a functions monde and a typing one?
>
> Finally, xbrlapi should handle as well bindings such as ctrl-o. To know binding for ctrl or other
> function keys:
> https://brltty.app/doc/KeyBindings/brl-hw-BI32.html
>
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> Le 19/05/2018 à 23:24, prayner unimelb edu au a écrit :
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>
> Second question in a week. I'd like to use my brailliant bi32 for
> input as well as output from, say gedit. this doesn't *appear* to be
> working. I can navigate ok and something is getting through to orca
> since thumb2+thumb3 gives a speech response of "leaving flat review".
> Similarly the braille cursor follows the speech around the screen when
> I move with the laptop keyboard.
> I can also  interact with brltty since things like help mode and learn
> mode work. What I can't seem to do is get keyboard input through to
> gnome. Entering characters has no effect, trying to open a new file
> with ctrl-o (here thumb3+o) doesn't work etc. since I can get to
> brltty I've presumably mesed up the plumbing somewhere between brltty
> and gnome. Anyone enlighten me or suggest debugging options?
> thanks again
> Peter

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