[BRLTTY] Clickable links, virtual consoles etc. (Was Re: Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux)

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2025/05/09 at 17:59 +0200]

>At least on Debian, there is a file called /etc/default/console-setup in
>wchich you can define two shell variables, SCREEN_WIDTH and
>#SCREEN_HEIGHT. I meant I left these two undefined and that's how I
>obtained the 135 lines by 480 columns, this second number actually
>making not much sense if I understood you correctly.

Actually, it does. Note that your default of 480x135 is essentially double the defualt of 240x67 that I adopted some years ago. I guess that's the width:height ratio that looks good for sighted people.

Note that there's nothing wrong with a width or height that exceeds 255 within the kernel. It's just a limitation imposed on the interface to the kernel (the vcs devices) that brltty uses.

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