[BRLTTY] Screen not in text mode

[Amanda Lacy]

I am using Orca, actually.

When I press alt-control-F2, F3, etc. the speech disappears for a while. Then it comes back and says I'm on the desktop, but the Braille terminal shows a shell prompt. The VM is completely unresponsive at the moment.

> On Jul 2, 2016, at 10:32 PM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> 
> [quoted lines by Amanda Lacy on 2016/07/02 at 22:16 -0500]
> 
>> I'm using a Vinux VM on my Mac. BRLTTY displays the message in the
>> subject line instead of what's on the screen. How do I fix it?
> 
> Brltty shows "screen not in text mode" when your system is switched to a 
> graphical console and a graphical screen reader (like Orca) isn't running. In 
> your case, my guess is that your system is booting to an X console. I suspect 
> that what you need to do is to switch to a text console.
> 
> Linux systems usually boot to tty1, so my guess is that your system defines its 
> consoles such that X is on tty1, and that tty2 through (maybe) tty6 are text 
> consoles. To switch to a different console, you need to hold both Control and 
> Left Alt while pressing the associated Function key. So, in your case, you'd 
> probably need to hold both Control and Left Alt while pressing F2. I'm not sure 
> if, on a Mac-hosted virtual machine, you can do that directly if if the key 
> combination is a bit different.
> 
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