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

[Elias Oltmanns]

Hi Halim,

thanks for the hint. This change had slipped my mind but now, that you
mention it, I remember reading about it.

Indeed, I can confirm that
$ systemctl --user status orca
reports orca being active when running the gnome-session and orca being
inactive when running mate. In the latter case, orca is running alright,
albeit not managed by systemd.

Well, I think I should take this to the orca list and possibly file a
bug, too. My braille issues apparently are just the symptom, so thank
you for drawing my attention to the environment variables and systemd in
relation to orca.

Best wishes of the season,

Elias


On 2025-12-23 at 14:22:29 (+0100), Halim Sahin <halim.sahin at freenet.de> wrote:
> Hi Elias,
> I think this has todo with orca's new way to to run using systemd.
> I think it's not related to wayland usage.
> 
> I use debian trixie on my raspi here but now brltty must be restarted in
> plain tty when switch from graphical to plain text Console to get
> braille back.
> 
> When I do following:
> 
> systemctl --user stop orca in xfce4-terminal and then
> start orca with alt+f2  orca then brltty works as expected.
> 
> HTH.
> Halim