[BRLTTY] Brltty layout question?

[Lee Maschmeyer]

What does "echo $COLUMNS" say? I bet it's greater than 80. If so,
perhaps "stty columns 80" would fix it.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:37:56PM -0600, Paul Migliorelli +1 3 0 3 5 5 2 6 9 7 0 wrote:
> 
> Hi all.  After many years of brltty use, I've noticed a drastic change to
> how brltty is showing text on the powerbraille 80.  Allas, I've never
> really grasped the use of many functions.  That is, I simply have been
> perfectly happy moving back and forth up and down the display with the
> bars.  The text used to present itself at the beginning of the display,
> filling up the line completely, without the need to use the buttons for
> reading the next half of text.  Now, after an upgrade to fc10, I notice
> text starting ***way over to the right, with what looks like an attempt to
> divide the text at some point, where the only way to continue reading is
> to hit the button on the far right.  And further, the only way to now read
> the text coherently is to use the right button, to scroll thru, and not
> use the bars as I did before, without any physical rap around.  For
> example, in alpine, I used to go i for index, and on the full display, it
> would say no messages to vies.  Now there's most of a blank display, with
> the text no message written way over to the right, and then when you press
> the right button, it scrolls over to the words to view completing the
> message.  Sorry if this doesn't make sense.  Any thing I could try to get
> it back to what was normal for years??  (grin)  Thanks.
> 
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