[BRLTTY] BRLTTY blocked on console while Orca is running on Wayland

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Elias Oltmanns, le ven. 19 déc. 2025 18:51:31 +0100, a ecrit:
> On 2025-12-19 at 14:44:27 (+0100), Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Elias Oltmanns, le ven. 19 déc. 2025 14:32:14 +0100, a ecrit:
> >> - Braille device responds to Orca now (as expected).
> >> - Switch to tty2 in text mode.
> >> - The braille device still shows Orcas output
> > 
> > It looks like orca doesn't manage to properly claim only the VT of the
> > wayland session.
> > 
> > When running inside a terminal, do you have these environment variables
> > set:
> > 
> > XDG_VTNR 
> > WAYLAND_DISPLAY
> > DISPLAY
> > WINDOWPATH
> 
> What exactly do you mean by „running inside a terminal“?

I meant a terminal in wayland.

> When I launch „terminal“ from within my GNOME session, XDG_VTNR is not
> set anymore,

Ok, so that's why.

Is your system using systemd? Normally it's set in the VT sessions.

> > Please also post the content of
> > 
> > /proc/1234/environ
> > 
> > where you replace 1234 with the pid of orca, so we get to know what
> > exactly orca has as environment variables.
> 
> This file appears to be empty since cat produces no output.

Had you replaced 1234 with the pid of orca? It's really not supposed to
be empty.

Samuel