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

[Michael Whapples]

The xprop command reports the correct VT.

I am not sure quite how the WINDOWPATH variable is meant to work. First 
time I login it is set to 7 and then when I logout and back in it reads 
7:8. Now if I logout and back in again X stays on tty8 and WINDOWPATH 
reads 7:8:8 but Braille still remains on tty7. Tomorrow I will see what 
the archlinux system reports for these, but may be you can tell me what 
they should read to be correct.

I am starting gnome with GDM and on debian it is 2.20.x (can't remember 
the exact version) and on archlinux we are on 2.30.x.

Anymore thoughts?

Michael Whapples
On 05/17/2010 12:29 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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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