[BRLTTY] autospeak=yes and using BRLTTY without braille display

[Sebastian Humenda]

Hi Dave

Dave Mielke schrieb am 18.01.2017, 11:15 -0500:
>[quoted lines by Sebastian Humenda on 2017/01/18 at 16:59 +0100]
>>I am wondering why autospeak is not set to yes/true, as soon as speech is
>>enabled? 
>
>No setting is automatically changed for any reason.
>
>>This is something I find quite problematic, especially when using computers 
>>with a braille display I don't know. In such cases it's hard to open the 
>>preferences menu and having speech would e.g. speed up reading the keyboard 
>>table of the display.
>
>I understand the problem, but I don't think forcing autospeak on if a speech 
>driver has been selected is a good thing to do. Many users want speech on 
>demand and wouldn't appreciate it being imposed on them.
I see. Other screen readers activate "autospeak" as soon as speech is enabled.
That however doesn't mean, that we have to do that as well.

Is there a way to set this preference from the configuration? If not, could such
a setting be added? That'd be enough for me.

>>When I start my computer without a braille display, I find that BRLTTY is very
>>unresponsive and does sometimes delay actions or doubles typed letters. This
>>does not happen when I start BRLTTY explicitly with `-b no` or with a braille
>>display is attached. I suppose this has to do with BRLTTY searching for a
>>display.
>
>Yes, that's what it seems like. An additional test would be to try using -b to 
>specify the specific driver but not have the braille device connected. I 
>suspect that'd be a lot better because brltty is then only trying one driver 
>instead of trying to autodetect all of them.
That would be a solution for most users. At the moment, I'm using many different
braille displays and therefore this is not an option for me.

How does the auto-discover work. Does it terminate to search for all possible
devices after some time? Is it in the main thread?

Thanks
Sebastian
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