[BRLTTY] brltty, orca and gdm not playing nicely

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

OK, I will definitely try that and see what hapens.

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

> covici at ccs.covici.com, le Sun 25 May 2014 14:01:29 -0400, a écrit :
> > I did try that, and  the orca portion of brltty keeps wanting to use
> > tty7, even though the gdm is on a different terminal (12 in my case).  I
> > think this has something to do with brlapi, although I am not sure
> > what.  I don't see tty7 anywhere in the brltty source, so what makes it
> > go there, I am not sure.
> 
> tty7 is not hardcoded in brltty indeed.  Orca hardcodes it, but only
> if autoconfiguration fails.
> 
> It happens that gdm3 seems to have completely dropped the support for
> the WINDOWPATH variable, how nice...  I'll discuss with Gnome people.
> 
> One thing you can do to circumvent the issue is changing the default
> inside orca, in orca/braille.py, change tty=7 to tty=12.
> 
> Samuel
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