[BRLTTY] BRLTTY NOT SAVING THE SETTINGS

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by craig martin on 2015/02/17 at 15:38 -0600]

>When I try to save the preferences in BRLTTY 5.2, the system goes back to
>the defaults at startup.  I am using Debian Seven with a focus forty blue.
>The system provides beautiful Grade two U.S. braille until the next time the
>system boots.
>
>I have a suggestion for a hot key.
>
>Can a grade two on/off keystroke be added?  My suggested hot key is dots
>one, two, three, four with the spacebar.  This hot key would be different
>than the six-dot and eight-dot keys.  They only add or subtract the dots
>seven and eight.  The Grade Two toggle would come in when you read a book
>that's been translated to Grade two from text, in which case you'd turn
>contracted braille off.  When you finish reading the BRF file, say, you
>could toggle Grade two translation back on.

Now I think I can see what the problem is. Selecting the contraction table 
within the preferences menu is indeed not being saved. The way to make that 
setting permanent is to do it in /etc/brltty.conf. If a contraction table is 
set then the six-dot function will enable that table.

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