[BRLTTY] How to programmatically do a blinking cursor and/or blinking cells?

[Willie Walker]

On the subject of blinking, I'm running into a problem where the blink
seems to stop as soon as Orca starts running.

What I've done is go through the BrlTTY menu at the console and enabled
cursor blinking.  

I then switch back to the X desktop, at which point I don't have Orca
running yet.  I then get the "Screen not in text mode" message, with a
blinking cursor.  

As soon as I run Orca, however, the cursor blinking stops.  What could
Orca be doing wrong to make this happen?

Will
 
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 10:06 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> Thanks!  This will help me from needing to dig further.  :-)  While I'm
> on the subject of blinking cursors, I'm still not sure how to set it in
> a configuration/preferences file.  That is, from the docs, it seems as
> though I can enable blinking as a general BrlTTY preference, but I'm not
> quite sure how to do it.  Do you have an example?
> 
> Will
> 
> On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 15:18 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Sébastien Hinderer, le Mon 11 Dec 2006 14:35:20 +0100, a écrit :
> > > However, it is true that if blinking would be provided by BrlAPI, this
> > > would let the user paramaterize the blinking speed in a way that would
> > > remain coherent from client to client, and in brltty.
> > 
> > That said, some clients may want to have various blinking speeds, for
> > differentiating several cases, etc.  So it's not obvious whether putting
> > it in BrlAPI is really ``what is right''.
> > 
> > > Also, we thought about a two-layers approach to providing braille
> > > display services. We talked about starting a second library, comparable
> > > to toolkits for X, which could integrate those higher-lever services
> > > like blinking, handling multi-window texts. Nothing has b developed so
> > > far, and we will warmly welcome any suggestion concerning the design and
> > > functionalities that wouldbe the most useful tothe community.
> > 
> > Of course, this should probably be developped jointly with
> > gnome-braille.
> > 
> > Samuel
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