[BRLTTY] Orbit Writer bluetooth braille keyboard, key presses do nothing, BRLTTY 5.5 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Emma Sajic on 2022/06/25 at 15:23 +0100]

>I've now built and installed BRLTTY 6.5 from source but am still getting the
>same issue of characters I press on the Orbit Writer keyboard not appearing
>in any apps I try (terminal console, gedit text editor, Atom text editor are
>the ones I tried so far).

Am I correct, then, that you're using the X environment? If so, then the problem is most likely that xbrlapi isn't running. X has its own way of reading what's being typed. Brltty doesn't handle that directly, but, rather, needs xbrlapi to be monitoring the X keyboard and sending it, via BrlAPI, what's being typed. You'd also need Orca running in order for the X environment to be interpreted correctly.

You might try going to brltty.app, clicking on Documentation, and then on BRLTTY with X11.

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