[BRLTTY] Saving configuration

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Vincent Le Goff on 2021/01/01 at 15:13 +0100]

>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.

Do you mean that they don't work at all? If that's true then I'd sure like to
have a look at a debug log that's captured while brltty starts. -ldebug will be
good enough in this case. Please also use -L/path/to/logfile (this L is
uppercase) so that brltty will write its log separately to a known file.

>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.

This is an old issue. The tables (text, contraction, attributes, keyboard)
aren't saved and must be specified within brltty.conf. I suppose this should be
fixed, but I haven't yet found a good answer to a question:

If a table is specified both as a saved preference and in brltty.conf then
which selection should win? I suppose the preference should win, but users
would then wonder why changing it in brltty.conf has no effect.

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