[BRLTTY] Fwd: Problems when using brltty in the terminal

[Christian Schoepplein]

On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 11:13:03AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Dave Mielke, le dim. 09 mai 2021 05:03:27 -0400, a ecrit:
>> [quoted lines by halim.sahin at freenet.de on 2021/05/09 at 10:19 +0200]
>> 
>> >   The problem reported is  not a speech only problem I think.
>> 
>> Specifying a2:type=terminal screen driver parameter tells the AtSpi2 screen driver to only pay attention to terminal windows
>
>No, please reread tryRestartTerm, it only uses the typeFlags array to
>determine the quality returned by the screen reader. If there is no text
>to read it will return SCQ_NONE indeed since it has nothing to say. But
>if there is text to read, whatever the type it will return at least
>SQC_POOR, and speech will speak it, which is indeed what is expected
>when brltty is alone as a screen reader.

When I start brltty by typing

brltty -b ba -x a2:type=terminal -N

as a unpriviliged user in the mate terminal  I get neither braille nor speech output :-(. I can see another brltty process has been started, but thats all.

Are I am doing something wrong? 

Ciao,

  Schoepp