[BRLTTY] problem with preferences saving

[John Covici]

Well, I am sure the prefs are being saved, or something because I can
go back into the prefs and see the new ones.  I have no brltty related
files or directories in /etc/xdg.  So, maybe they are not being saved
at all.





On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:13:53 -0400,
Dave Mielke wrote:
> 
> [quoted lines by John Covici on 2021/07/29 at 16:50 -0400]
> 
> >Yes, I have -rw------- 1 root root 58 Mar  4  2013
> >/etc/brltty-pm.prefs
> >
> >But its very old, I never knew to delete it.
> 
> It'd also be only for a Papenmeier device, and I don't think you're using those anymore. You should remove it, though.
> 
> Another possibility is that you have a brltty.prefs file within the /etc/xdg/brltty/ directory. If so, it'd be overriding the one within /var/lib/brltty/.
> 
> I'm a little confused, though. I believe you said that your preference changes are being saved, but you also said that the time stamp on /var/lib/brltty/brltty.prefs is a year ago or so. Did I misunderstand this? If not, why are you sure that your changes are being saved?
> 
> Also, perhaps you could have a look at the log to see if brltty is reporting any error(s).
> 
> >I think, but am not sure this started when I started using the git
> >version rather than 6.3.
> 
> That wouldn't matter.
> 
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