[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Christian Schoepplein on 2025/04/04 at 22:49 +0200]

>> You need to specify -g for the main brltty, i.e. not for the -b ba -x a2 instance.
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>Yes, this is working, because the main instance is running as root. But I have no idea then how I can use this feature in Mate where everything runs in user space and where brltty works best with the -b ba -x a2 settings from above. Do you have an idea?

You shouldn't need -g on the secondary instance because it's the primary (main) instance that's handling the keyboard. Commands which are bound in the keyboard table are passed through to the secondary instance, via BrlAPI, for processing.

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