[BRLTTY] More about problem with brltty in lynx with google

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Sat Apr 30 02:16:58 EDT 2011


[quoted lines by Cheryl Homiak on 2011/04/29 at 16:42 -0500]

>If I switch consoles and then come back, the cursor shows where it should be 
>and I can move down several links before I appear to freeze, though apparently 
>the keyboard and computer aren't actually freezing. Then if I switch consoles 
>and come back, my cursor will be in place again. For insance, if I arrow down 
>ten links even though I can't tell I'm moving with brltty, when I switch 
>consoles and then come back i'm on the link I was arrowing to and then I can 
>move down several links again before I can't tell i'm moving any more. And 
>then I can repeat the process. This is now happening on both the computers on 
>which I installed arch linux as it did in debian unstable but not when I 
>reinstalled in debian stable, One one arch install I'm using the latest svn 
>revission while on the other i'm using arch's version which is 4.2. Again, 
>this happens in lynx the cat but not links the chain.

What, exactly, freezes? Can you continue to navigate around the screen with the 
controls on the braille display? Can you arrow back upward to previous links? 
What happens if you invoke brltty's "go to cursor" function?

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