[BRLTTY] Problem with orca and brltty, Braille showing on wrong terminal

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sun May 16 19:29:40 EDT 2010


Michael Whapples, le Mon 17 May 2010 00:17:59 +0100, a écrit :
> On my debian system for some reason when I logout and log back in to
> gnome the X server moves up a terminal (from tty7 to tty8). When this
> happens on my debian system the Braille output of orca is left on the
> old terminal (tty7 in this case) and the new terminal (tty8) just
> shows "screen not in text mode".

Apparently Orca doesn't notice the VT change. How is X started? Could
you check that the value reported by

xprop -root | grep XFree86_VT

is properly updated?  Could you also check whether the WINDOWPATH
environment variable received by Orca is also properly updated?

I believe the issue is neither in BRLTTY or Orca, but in the invoker of
the X terminal, which doesn't properly set the session.

> Interestingly I don't see this on an archlinux system (the archlinux 
> system still suffers from X moving up a terminal, it doesn't suffer this 
> Braille issue).

Please check the differing version of gdm/xdm/etc. that spawns the X
server.

Samuel


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