[BRLTTY] Keyboard commands to drive a Raspberry PI

John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
Thu Jun 18 19:07:10 EDT 2020


Gnome is a resource hog, I had a 4-core system -- was a bit old -- and
gnome crawled.  I wonder if xfce would be better, but do you really
need a gui?

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:58:23 -0400,
Georgina Joyce wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> Could you explain?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> > On 18 Jun 2020, at 23:30, John Covici <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi.  I would not attempt to use gnomeon such a device -- better off
> > using a text console.
> > 
> > On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:01:16 -0400,
> > Georgina Joyce wrote:
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> >> Hello Brian,
> >> 
> >> Thank you I am just downloading a Pi image to see how it works on an early model of the Pi and if I can work it I will buy the latest with plenty of RAM. 
> >> 
> >> Thanks for the learn mode that will come in very handy.
> >> 
> >>> On 18 Jun 2020, at 19:55, Brian Tew <montanalag at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Think so yes. Also there is learn mode space-123 
> >>> Which reports your key bindings.
> >>> 
> >>>> On Jun 18, 2020, at 1:36 PM, Georgina Joyce <gena at gena-j.me.uk> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Hello,
> >>> 
> >>> I have found this, for the 2nd generation. Would this apply to the 5th?
> >>> 
> >>> https://brltty.app/doc/KeyBindings/brl-fs-focus40.html#keyboard-input <https://brltty.app/doc/KeyBindings/brl-fs-focus40.html#keyboard-input><https://brltty.app/doc/KeyBindings/brl-fs-focus40.html#keyboard-input <https://brltty.app/doc/KeyBindings/brl-fs-focus40.html#keyboard-input>>
> >>> 
> >>>> On 18 Jun 2020, at 19:24, Georgina Joyce <gena at gena-j.me.uk <mailto:gena at gena-j.me.uk><mailto:gena at gena-j.me.uk <mailto:gena at gena-j.me.uk>>> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>> 
> >>>> Thank you could you provide a URL? Or at least point to the contents heading. As I looked and could not find what I was looking for. Having stated I had done considerable research a RTFM response is not helpful.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> 
> >>>>> On 18 Jun 2020, at 18:35, Brian Tew <montanalag at gmail.com <mailto:montanalag at gmail.com><mailto:montanalag at gmail.com <mailto:montanalag at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> All the key bindings are on the brltty.app website.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> On Jun 18, 2020, at 9:08 AM, Georgina Joyce <gena at gena-j.me.uk <mailto:gena at gena-j.me.uk><mailto:gena at gena-j.me.uk <mailto:gena at gena-j.me.uk>>> wrote:
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Hello All,
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I am thinking I would like to pair my Focus Blue 5th Generation with a Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM. However, firstly, I am not sure if the 5th gen is supported by brltty?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> If it was and I wanted to use the Gnome desktop where are the keyboard command set published? I found a set used by NVDA but have unable to find what a display’s input keys can do to interact with the gnome interface?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I guess that there would be a considerable amount of custom configuration in respect of key bindings.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Can I use my 5th gen blue? Where do I find details about key bindings?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Thank you.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Gena
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Call: M0EBP
> >>>>> DMR ID: 2346259
> >>>>> Loc: IO83PS
> >>>>> 73
> >>>>> 
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> >>>> Gena
> >>>> 
> >>>> Call: M0EBP
> >>>> DMR ID: 2346259
> >>>> Loc: IO83PS
> >>>> 73
> >>>> 
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> >>> Gena
> >>> 
> >>> Call: M0EBP
> >>> DMR ID: 2346259
> >>> Loc: IO83PS
> >>> 73
> >>> 
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> >> Gena
> >> 
> >> Call: M0EBP
> >> DMR ID: 2346259
> >> Loc: IO83PS
> >> 73
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> > -- 
> > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > How do
> > you spend it?
> > 
> >         John Covici wb2una
> >         covici at ccs.covici.com <mailto:covici at ccs.covici.com>
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> Gena
> 
> Call: M0EBP
> DMR ID: 2346259
> Loc: IO83PS
> 73
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         covici at ccs.covici.com


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