[BRLTTY] braille Unicode input in X

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sat Mar 27 18:15:14 EDT 2021


Dave Mielke, le sam. 27 mars 2021 15:03:19 -0400, a ecrit:
> The original idea was that a client that claimed PASSDOTS would get dots and a client that clamed PASSCHAR would get characters. One of the problems with this, of course, is that the core can't tell whether or not it should run PASSDOTS (what most braille devices send) through the server since it doesn't know if any client wants them.
> 
> Is it only the parameter that an change the retaindots setting?

Yes.

> If so, we can probably still assume, that this point, that it's currently always true.

Yes, I am not aware of any software making use of it.

> If so, we can probably just drop it.

Yes, that could make the picture simpler. As of now, I don't see the
benefit of retaindot over the PASSDOTS acceptance.

Samuel


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