[BRLTTY] question tmux screen driver

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Halim Sahin on 2026/03/24 at 08:07 +0100]

>running tmux on xfce.
>Then I run brltty as follows:
>
>brltty -b ba -x tx -s sd -N
>
>Result:
>I get braille output but when switching back into xfce window orca can't
>output anything until tmux stopps.

You need to tell BrlAPI which tty tmux is on. That isn't easy as tmux creates a pty (virtual console). That's why we wrote the brltty-tmux script. After starting tmux, rather than starting the second brltty instance directly, start it by running the brltty-tmux script. If you aren't running as root then use its -s option to tell it that it should internally use sudo.

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