[BRLTTY] brltty, orca and gdm not playing nicely

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

And indeed after a reboot, that patch solved the problem.  Now if I
could get orca to talk, that would be better!

Thanks all for your help.

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by timothyhobbs at seznam.cz on 2014/05/25 at 23:37 +0200]
> 
> >Well that's a step back in naming clarity ;) 
> 
> It's just kind of a new standard that's come into existence lately. A check of 
> the brltty source will reveal that we already (as of 5.1) support the 
> XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS environment variables.
> 
> >I presume that XDG_VTNR means something in Hebrew, given the utter lack of 
> >vowels.
> 
> Please, let's try and not be mean. And, besides, Hebrew has vowel points. The 
> fact is that we can usually point at ourselves if we're looking for fault. In 
> this case, the true inventors of vowelless spelling were early computer 
> programmers who'd do anything at all to avoid typing more than absolutely 
> necessary, even if it completely obfuscated all of their code.
> 
> XDG means X Desktop Group. VTNR means Virtual Terminal Number.
> 
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