[BRLTTY] How to use a real driver + xw simultaneiously?

[Mario Lang]

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> writes:

> Mario Lang, le Sun 26 Jul 2009 16:03:24 +0200, a écrit :
>> I am currently at a conference where we plan to do some showcasing of
>> accessibility technologies to interested people.  I am wondering if I
>> can somehow setup the xw driver to run concurrently with my braille
>> display.
>
> No.
> Long time ago I imagined writing a brlapi multiplexer that would permit
> to use 3 brltty daemons: one for xw, one for your braille display, the
> multiplexer connected to these two brlttys via brlapi, and a third
> brltty using the brlapi braille driver. Problems include different
> braille display sizes, mixing key events & such, and time to develop it
> vs number of use cases :)
>
> Usually for such demonstrations I just use the gpm highlight feature of
> brltty.

Yes, I also thought of that, but unfortunately (as you saw) the beamer
did not like to display my console content.  Too bad, but well, I think
the presentation went well down anyway.

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