[BRLTTY] Saving configuration

Jason White jason at jasonjgw.net
Fri Jan 1 09:36:06 EST 2021


As I recall, the contraction table isn't saved with your preferences. 
However, you can specify it in /etc/brltty.conf.

On 1/1/21 9:13 AM, Vincent Le Goff wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> And happy new year!  I'm facing a very small issue in BRLTTY. The 
> original key binding for the braille display I'm using (activbraille 
> from Handytech) doesn't seem to work for most things, including 
> opening the preferences and saving them. Besides I wasn't too happy 
> with the original bindings so I updated some of them.  I can open the 
> preferences (great!) and change whatever I want in them.
>
> The problem comes after that: in the preferences, I've noted that my 
> overridden bindings don't work, so I have to use the "older" ones, the 
> default ones, while in the menu.  That's understandable.  But since 
> the default binding for "save the preferences" doesn't work for me, I 
> can't save these preferences. I can close them just fine but of 
> course, on restart, most of them are wiped clean.  Which is strange 
> because the "save preferences on exit" is indeed set to "yes" by 
> default, and some preferences seem to have survived a reboot.  Not 
> sure why, but the Braille table is definitely one I have to update 
> each time.
>
> It's not really much of a problem, but I would like to understand it a 
> bit more.  Any suggestion?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Vincent
>
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