[BRLTTY] the xw driver does not display

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sun Feb 12 19:18:40 EST 2012


timothyhobbs at seznam.cz, le Mon 13 Feb 2012 01:02:00 +0100, a écrit :
> $ ps aux | grep at-spi
> timothy    888  0.0  0.0  43032  2888 ?        Sl   00:41   0:00 /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi-bus-launcher
> timothy    892  0.0  0.0   3000  1240 ?        S    00:41   0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/etc/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3
> timothy    895  0.0  0.1  16924  3148 ?        Sl   00:41   0:00 /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi2-registryd --use-gnome-session

That is at-spi2. So use the a2 (at-spi2) driver

> Now it occured to me, that brltty shouldn't need at-spi at all.  Am I correct on that matter?

Yes, it'll just be unable to read anything by itself, only display what
brlapi clients tell it.

> # brltty -b tt -d `tty` -B term=gnome-terminal -n
> BRLTTY 4.3 rev 5957 [http://mielke.cc/brltty/]
> 
> ** (process:1171): WARNING **: AT_SPI_REGISTRY was not started at session startup.
> 
> ** (process:1171): WARNING **: Could not locate registry
> brltty: SPI_init returned 2
> ------------------
> Sadly to the same results.  Failiure.

It's very odd that it'd try to initialize at-spi. Please also pass -e
and -l debug so we can have more information.

Samuel


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