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

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Dave Mielke on 2025/05/09 at 12:48 -0400]

[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,

The latest code renders a large screen (one with more than 255 columns and/or lines) correctly. At least, that is, if your kernel is more recent than 2019 or so (I forget the precise release). If it's older then a large screen will be rendered incorrectly but you'll still be able to fix that by adding the LargeScreenBug=yes screen driver option.

This fixes the ability to read a large screen, but it doesn't yet deal with knowing exactly where the cursor is when it's beyond the 256th column or line.

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