[BRLTTY] More then one connection to brlapi

[Jan Buchal]

>>>>> "ST" == Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> writes:

    ST> Hi, Ah, from reading the source code in speechd-el, the
    ST> implementation is incorrect there.

OK, That's a question for Milan Zamazal.

    ST> Jan Buchal, le Wed 23 Nov 2005 10:56:21 +0100, a écrit : I guess
    ST> this shows up when you run emacs. How do you run emacs? In its
    ST> own window (like xemacs),
    >> Yes in own window.

    ST> Ok. I guess brltty.el can get from emacs the ID of the X window
    ST> in which it is running?

    ST> The correct implementation would be:

    ST> - If the WINDOWSPATH environment variable exists, decode its
    ST> content as a list of integers (the content of the variable is
    ST> expected to be something like 8:12345:23456) - Else (WINDOWSPATH
    ST> was not defined by xsession/xinitrc), if running in an X
    ST> environment, grab the VT number from the XFree86_VT X property
    ST> and use that as a list of one integer. - Else, emacs is running
    ST> on the linux console, use an empty integer list.

    ST> - Then, if emacs is running in its own window, append the window
    ST> ID to this integer list. - Else, if it exists, append the
    ST> content of the WINDOWID environment variable (running in an
    ST> xterm), - Else (i.e. running on the linux text console),
    ST> determine the controlling tty by looking in /proc/self/stat the
    ST> major and minor number of the controlling tty (7th part)

    ST> And when sending the 'gettty packet, send the size of this list
    ST> and its content. The BrlAPI server will then know for instance
    ST> that emacs is running in its own X window of VT 8.

very good, thanks for your time.

    ST> Regards, Samuel _______________________________________________
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