[BRLTTY] xbrltty questions

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Wed Dec 29 15:27:29 EST 2021


Alexander Epaneshnikov, le mer. 29 déc. 2021 23:02:44 +0300, a ecrit:
> indeed I configured my brltty to input unicode brail dots.
> I want to type braille dots with unicode characters in X11

Ok, that was not obvious.

> iirc it worked fign Two months ago. or so.

With which version of brltty?
xbrlapi's X11 management concerning keycodes hasn't changed since april
2018.

> Remapped keycode 248 to keysym 01002801
> key 01002801: (248,0,0)
> xbrlapi: X Error 0, BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) on display :1
> xbrlapi: resource 0x16f80001, req 135:9

Could you run

xmodmap -pke

to check that keycode 248 really is available.

> > > now brltty reads the terminal, but I would like orca to control brltty in the
> > > terminal.
> >
> > What do you mean by "orca to control brltty"?
> 
> Excuse me, I probably did not express myself clearly. at this moment the second
> brltty 
> I think that for this I just need to rewrite 90-xbrlapi so that it does not
> start the second brltty.

You can comment the brltty startup line there yes.

Samuel


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