[BRLTTY] brltty, orca and gdm not playing nicely
covici at ccs.covici.com
covici at ccs.covici.com
Mon May 26 03:53:30 EDT 2014
And indeed after a reboot, that patch solved the problem. Now if I
could get orca to talk, that would be better!
Thanks all for your help.
Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> [quoted lines by timothyhobbs at seznam.cz on 2014/05/25 at 23:37 +0200]
>
> >Well that's a step back in naming clarity ;)
>
> It's just kind of a new standard that's come into existence lately. A check of
> the brltty source will reveal that we already (as of 5.1) support the
> XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS environment variables.
>
> >I presume that XDG_VTNR means something in Hebrew, given the utter lack of
> >vowels.
>
> Please, let's try and not be mean. And, besides, Hebrew has vowel points. The
> fact is that we can usually point at ourselves if we're looking for fault. In
> this case, the true inventors of vowelless spelling were early computer
> programmers who'd do anything at all to avoid typing more than absolutely
> necessary, even if it completely obfuscated all of their code.
>
> XDG means X Desktop Group. VTNR means Virtual Terminal Number.
>
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