[BRLTTY] Skip identical blank lines setting seems to impact Orca

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sun Mar 1 14:51:30 UTC 2026


Jason J.G. White, le sam. 28 févr. 2026 07:35:57 -0500, a ecrit:
> Sébastien Hinderer <sebastien.hinderer at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> > Also, even if there would be the will and manpower to accomplish that
> > work, it wouldmean that you'd need to gather the list of allthe function
> > keys of all devices, or at least just the function keys of the active
> > one. I am not sure how easy it is to do that programmatically. I am not
> > saying it is not, I am just sayingI really don't know.
> 
> Yes, I think there would at least need to be an operation to query BRLTTY
> for information about the keys and controls of the active display,

This is already available:

BRLAPI_PARAM_DEFINED_DRIVER_KEYCODES
BRLAPI_PARAM_DRIVER_KEYCODE_NAME
BRLAPI_PARAM_DRIVER_KEYCODE_SUMMARY

> or, failing that, the manufacturer/model of device being used.

This is

BRLAPI_PARAM_DEVICE_MODEL

Samuel


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