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Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Thu Jan 1 14:45:32 UTC 2026


Lars Bjørndal, le mer. 31 déc. 2025 16:37:01 +0100, a ecrit:
> > 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.

Note that in terminals, control-v is not pasting, you need to press
control-shift-v.

> > 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.

You mean, for pasting with the braille command? When you run it
manually, does it indeed start properly?

Samuel


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