[BRLTTY] problems after upgrading to brltty 5.4

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Tue Jul 12 08:31:14 EDT 2016


Samuel Thibault, on Tue 12 Jul 2016 14:30:24 +0200, wrote:
> Dave Mielke, on Tue 12 Jul 2016 08:28:03 -0400, wrote:
> > >but, when I try to set NVDA to use BRLTTY as braille display, Windows reports, 
> > >that BRLTTY has creshed and windows is searching for solutions.
> > 
> > Not being a Windows person, I don't know all that much about how NVDA works. It 
> > may be, however, that NVDA is expecting brltty to be running as a Windows 
> > service rather than as the result of manual invoaction.
> 
> I don't think this matters: NVDA simply connects through the standard
> tcp port or named pipe. It doesn't matter how the daemon running behind
> was started.

And more to the point, there is no reason why brltty should *crash* on
whatever behavior from NVDA. It's simply just not expected to crash at
all, at worse report an error to NVDA.

Samuel


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