[BRLTTY] Bug#848008: brltty: fails to detect keyboard when started before systemd-udev-settle.service

Samuel Thibault sthibault at debian.org
Tue Dec 13 02:37:00 EST 2016


Hello,

Sebastian Humenda, on Tue 13 Dec 2016 06:32:13 +0100, wrote:
> When enabling a keyboard table in /etc/brltty.conf, brltty should provide
> navigation commands using the keyboard. On some systems, this doesn't work after
> boot, because the keyboard has not been detected yet. The fix is to add the
> following to the unit file:
> 
>     [Unit]
>     After=systemd-udev-settle.service
>     Wants=systemd-udev-settle.service
> 
> This has been fixed upstream, too.

Mmm, but that will delay brltty startup more than strictly necessary.
Shouldn't brltty be able to catch keyboard shortcuts from newly-plugged
keyboards? It'd then just catch the keyboards as they get detected by
udev, without delaying the startup.

Samuel


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