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Lars Bjørndal lars at lamasti.net
Wed Dec 31 15:37:01 UTC 2025


[Samuel]

Thank you! You wrote:

> Lars Bjørndal, le mer. 31 déc. 2025 13:11:47 +0100, a ecrit:
> > [Samuel]
> > > Lars Bjørndal, le mer. 31 déc. 2025 08:59:13 +0100, a ecrit:
> > > > I'm using GUI (X through i3/i38) rarely, so my experience is limited. I
> > > > need to copy and paste between native console and a terminal under X.
> > > 
> > > Are you running xbrlapi in the X session?
> > 
> > Yes, xbrlapi is running.
> 
> Are you pasting with the braille command, or with the X application
> control-v shortcut? The latter should be pasting fine with xbrlapi
> running.

Yes. In gedit for instance, Ctrl-v works fine, but not in lxterminal.

> For the former to work fine, you would need to run a second
> brltty inside the X session with the brlapi and atspi2 drivers:
> 
> brltty -b ba -x a2
> 
> Normally the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90xbrlapi script starts that along
> starting xbrlapi.

I have the file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90xbrlapi on my system (Fedora 42), but the second instance of brltty isn't starting automatically. I tried to start it manually, but with no positive change.

Thanks,
Lars


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