[BRLTTY] Terminal Type for Braille Edge connected via BRLTTY

Kevin Fjelsted kfjelsted at gmail.com
Fri Sep 2 06:40:18 EDT 2016


> Which keys are you using for the up and down arrows when you have a braille 
> keyboard?*** I have tried both sets of up and down arrows. 
> 
> How are the keyboard and the Braille Edge arrows behaving differently? If I'm 
> understanding correctly, the keyboard arrows are doing what you want. What are 
> the Braille Edge's arrow keys doing instead? Are they still moving up and down 
> the screen?
> *** The Edge arrows are being ignored in our program and we get no characters back from them when they are pressed. 
> Have you remapped your system's key layout in any way?
> *** No remapping.
> Does the program send an escape sequence on startup to switch the keyboard to 
> alternate keypad mode, and then watch for the alternate escape sequences? *** No is this what we need to do? 
> On Sep 2, 2016, at 5:36 AM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> 
> [quoted lines by Kevin Fjelsted on 2016/09/02 at 05:19 -0500]
> 
>>> Do you mean the up and down arrows on the Braille Edge's keyboard?
>> 
>> Yes.
> 
> Which keys are you using for the up and down arrows when you have a braille 
> keyboard?
> 
> How are the keyboard and the Braille Edge arrows behaving differently? If I'm 
> understanding correctly, the keyboard arrows are doing what you want. What are 
> the Braille Edge's arrow keys doing instead? Are they still moving up and down 
> the screen?
> 
> Have you remapped your system's key layout in any way?
> 
> Does the program send an escape sequence on startup to switch the keyboard to 
> alternate keypad mode, and then watch for the alternate escape sequences?
> 
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