[BRLTTY] Questions about refreshabraille and about running brltty for two displays

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Cheryl Ann Homiak on 2012/10/23 at 10:51 -0500]

>Can somebody please tell me where to find the information for using
>the Refreshabraille? 

The current RefreshaBraille bindings aren't very good for brltty. This is 
because, at the time, we didn't have key tables yet and there was a need to 
design the bindings for use with a device (I forget its name at the moment) 
that APH was developing. Now that we have key tables, we can fix this. Perhaps 
I can work with you to do this.

For now, here are a couple of things to know. The first is that you can find 
the current bindings in the file "brl-bm-keyboard.kti". The second is that the 
RefreshaBraille has been designed so that if you press the joystick, and then, 
while holding it, press a combination involving dots 1-6, you get the original 
Baum top key bindings.

>Also, I wondered what the correct way is to run two displays on a
>machine at the same time. it doesn't work to just put both displays
>in the brltty.conf but I can start each one from the command line. Is
>this the way to do it or is there a way to do it within the
>brltty.conf?

You can't specify more than one braille device in "brltty.conf". You need to 
explicitly run two (or more) instances of brltty. This can be done from the 
command line, or, of course, you can start the second one, also, as part of 
system startup. You can use the -f option to specify an alternate "brltty.conf" 
so that each can have a different default configuration.

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