[BRLTTY] brltty, orca and gdm not playing nicely

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

hmmm, I tried that and got very strange results, like on tty12 it said
screen not in text mode, but would go back and forth to tty7 -- it was
very strange.  The other thing which is not happening is that Orca is
not talking in gdm, but it talks fine once logged in, you can see the
process, but its not sending anything to speech dispatcher.  Speech
dispatcher runs in system-wide mode.  Any ideas on that?  Pulse audio is
not being used -- at least not by speech dispatcher.


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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