[BRLTTY] Brltty in Ubuntu.

Anders Holmberg anders at pipkrokodil.se
Fri Feb 16 09:42:52 EST 2018


Hi!
I totally agree with you on this.
But wonder why it is like that?
/A

> 15 feb. 2018 kl. 16:23 skrev Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc>:
> 
> [quoted lines by Anders Holmberg on 2018/02/15 at 16:15 +0100]
> 
>> When you install ubuntu or debian from scratch you can get braille to work but i often have problems after i have updated brltty.
>> SO i am wondering if brltty is built for starting  with init or systemd because brltty seldom starts automatically when i have built my brltty folowing the instructions in the users manual.
> 
> I have a guess which you can perhaps verify. The default is for brltty to be 
> put into /bin/, but I believe I've heard that Debian (and, therefore, also 
> Ubuntu) puts it into /sbin/. If this is correct, then that may be the reason 
> that systemd isn't starting it for you. Those distributions may have altered 
> the systemd unit to start brltty from within /sbin/, wehreas a home-built 
> brltty would be putting it into /bin/.
> 
> I myself don't see having different distributions put brltty into different 
> places is helpful, so maybe this is a good time to rediscuss the issue.
> 
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