[BRLTTY] Understanding brltty on a linux machine

[Chevelle]

Well if you are doing a simple 'print' statement in Python, it generates 
a new line by default, so the cursor is on the line after the output.  
You have to move the Braille window up to read it.  If you do something like

ans=input('enter text: ')

Now the cursor should be on the line where it says 'enter text'. Maybe 
type 'clear' before you run your script.  If it doesn't work like I 
describe, you might be hitting a terminal display bug. Without knowing 
exactly what you are doing, I'm just guessing.



On 3/20/25 20:04, Pranav Lal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry, I am getting seriously mixed up.
>
> I can press keys on the braille display and things do change.
>
> When I did the test, I was in a text terminal.
>
> However, when I write python code and run the scripts, I get speech output from the linux server but no braille.
>
> Pranav
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of Chevelle
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2025 12:04 AM
> To: brltty at brltty.app
> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Understanding brltty on a linux machine
>
> Are you using a graphical window such as mate-terminal?  Are you saying pressing keys on the Braille display doesn't work?
>
>
> On 3/20/25 12:17, Pranav Lal wrote:
>> Hi Aura,
>>
>> Thanks for your explanation. I understand what you are saying but the thing
>> is that I do not even feel the pins move.
>>
>> How do I issue brltty commands? When I wrote about moving, I was moving  by
>> pressing the intermediate up arrow key on my qwerty keyboard.
>>
>> Pranav
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of Aura Kelloniemi
>> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2025 2:42 PM
>> To: brltty at brltty.app
>> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Understanding brltty on a linux machine
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> On 2025-03-20 at 05:21 +0530, "Pranav Lal" <pranav at techesoterica.com> wrote:
>>    > I have brltty running on my arch linux system. At the bash prompt, if I
>> do  > Echo test  > I do not see the word test. However, if I scroll up, then
>> I can read the  > command in the buffer.
>>
>> If you run "echo test", you will of cours see the new command prompt on the
>> braille display, because the prompt is printed after "test" and because the
>> screen cursor is located at the end of the prompt. I believe this is clear
>> to you.
>>
>> Now, if you use the LNUP (line up) command of BRLTTY, you should see the
>> word "test" or an empty braille window, if the command prompt was longer
>> than your braille display. LNUP command does not move the braille window to
>> the left side of the terminal, it just moves one line up keeping the braille
>> window's left edge where it was. To get to see the beginning of the line you
>> need to use FWINLT (full window left), LNBEG (line beginning) or a similar
>> command.
>>
>> But if scrolling up immediately shows the previous command prompt (and your
>> echocommand), it could be that you have invoked the PRPROMPT BRLTTY command
>> (which stands for previous prompt). It scrolls up in the terminal window
>> until it finds something that looks like a command prompt.
>>
>> Hopefully this helps.
>>
>> --
>> Aura
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