[BRLTTY] Brltty is installed on my Mac, but the braille display doesn't start.

Amanda Lacy lacy925 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 14:18:45 EDT 2016


Screen did come up. It presented me with a list of options, and I
pressed enter and got a terminal. Then I turned off VO and started
brltty.

On 9/14/16, Cheryl Homiak <cah4110 at icloud.com> wrote:
> Brltty works fine on the Mac too once you get the hang of it except that
> when something in the OS changes or something in brltty changes you have to
> regroup sometimes. That isn't really surprising considering that brltty on
> the Mac, though it depends on the Unix underpinnings of the OS,  isn't
> integrated into the system but works only in terminal and then only with
> screen.
>
> --
> Cheryl
>
> May the words of my mouth
> and the meditation of my heart
> be acceptable to You, Lord,
> my rock and my Redeemer.
> (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
>
>
>
>
>> On Sep 14, 2016, at 4:01 AM, Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yep, you gotta start screen before BRLTTY. Ugh, it's such a mess on the
>> Mac. Much harder than Emacspeak to set up. Funny enough, Brltty works fine
>> on Linux, and Emacspeak is a beast to tame there.
>>
>> Devin Pratersent from Gmail.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4110 at icloud.com
>> <mailto:cah4110 at icloud.com>> wrote:
>> Did screen start successfully?
>> --
>> Cheryl
>>
>> May the words of my mouth
>> and the meditation of my heart
>> be acceptable to You, Lord,
>> my rock and my Redeemer.
>> (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Sep 14, 2016, at 12:30 AM, Amanda Lacy <lacy925 at gmail.com
>> > <mailto:lacy925 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I have both screen and brltty installed. I turned off Voiceover and
>> > then started brltty, but brltty did not take control of the Braille
>> > display. It did appear to start successfully, it just gave no Braille
>> > output. I noticed during the configure process that several services
>> > weren't available to it. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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