[BRLTTY] could this be a bug?

kendell clark coffeekingms at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 19:15:47 EDT 2016


hi
I'm not currently but I'll be glad to start. Where can I check out the
software repository via git, svn, etc? That way I can import your patch
when you send it?
Thanks
Kendell Clark


Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by kendell clark on 2016/09/03 at 21:27 -0500]
>
>> Could this be a brltty bug? Braille displays plugged in after brltty has
>> restarted usually display "screen not in text mode" until brltty is
>> restarted. This only happens if you're in a graphical desktop, they work
>> fine if you're in the text console. Once brltty is restarted, after the
>> brltty startup message orca picks up on the display and it works fine. 
> Yes, it's a bug. Perhaps we could call it an expected problem since a proper 
> fix requires an as yet unimplemented new feature. The basics of the problem are 
> that Orca can't determine the size of the braille display if it starts and the 
> display isn't there yet, and that there's currently no way to tell Orca when 
> the display has finally been connected so that it can try again.
>
> Are you building from the latest development code so that I can send you a 
> patch for testing?
>



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