Re: [orca-list] Braille support with Orca/GNOME

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault hypra fr>]

Hello
,
Jason White via orca-list, le mer. 30 janv. 2019 19:31:01 -0500, a ecrit:
> I've just tried to set up Orca with Gnome on Arch Linux. It's using a Wayland
> session.
>
> Speech is working. So far, braille isn't. BRLTTY runs fine at the console
> level. Braille is enabled in the Orca settings. I've created /etc/brltty.key.
> The system logs show that BRLTTY is accepting a brlapi connection, but the
> braille display only shows a "screen is not in text mode" message.

Ok. Is your Wayland session running on VT7, or VT1?
Xorg had a way to let orca know where it is running, so brlapi can work
alright. I guess Wayland missed it. You can try to run orca with

XDG_VTNR=1 orca

to tell orca that Wayland is running on VT1.

Samuel