[BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Windows

[Paul Scott]

Hi, I am not sure if this is helpful. Brltty seems to only work for windows
console hosts which can be changed under terminal settings which you can
search in the windows search. The windows terminal seems to not work.

On Sun, Jul 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2025/07/07 at 19:24 +0200]
>
> >Please find attacned the two files, enable.log and service.log.
>
> Neither log shows brltty actually trying to access a braille device. I'm
> seeing something new in the one that should be, i.e. missing handling for
> SERVICE_CONTROL_INTERROGATE. No idea why that should be supported (as
> Windows itself ought to already know the service's state) but, maybe,
> something in Windows 11 is making that necessary. This'll take soem
> research, though, as programming for Windows doesn't come "naturally" to me
> and, as far as I can tell, there's no way within brltty's current service
> control handler to return the service's current state.
>
> >It seems that the settings in etc/brltty.conf is read.
>
> Yes, indeed it does so brltty.conf must be in the right place.
>
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