[BRLTTY] Screen not in text mode

[Amanda Lacy]

I'm able to cat the brlapi.key file. My user is in the sudo group and
the file is associated with root. Can you think of anything else I
might check? Thanks.

On 7/6/16, Mike Gorse <mgorse at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jul 2016, Dave Mielke wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> It might also mean that orca isn't able to authenticate with brltty, since
> orca interacts with brltty through an API that requires authentication.
> Authentication can be done in several ways, and I'm not sure how vinux
> does things, but normally your user needs to be able to read
> /etc/brlapi.key. It is likely that that file is group-readable, so make
> sure that your user is a member of the group that brlapi.key is associated
> with.
>
> -Mike
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