[BRLTTY] Changing BRLTTY key mapping [repost]

[Vincent LE GOFF]

Hi everyone,


Thanks for the comment Shérab.  I changed my key bindings yesterday and 
it was so easy I was almost (almost!) disappointed when it worked so 
well.  My new mapping just focuses on rockers, although I may be 
altering some others (the fact that the Braille keyboard is turned off 
by default and requires additional keys is a bit strange, but I don't 
use the Braille keyboard that often anyway).


I've remapped as follows, it made more sense to me: top left rocker = 
LNUP (line up), bottom left rocker = LNDN (line down), top right rocker 
= FWINLT (previous Braille window), bottom right rocker = FWINRT (next 
Braille window).  In addition, I have changed some key combinations, so 
going to the top/bottom of the screen, going at the cursor position, or 
going at the beginning of a line (that's things I often do on a daily 
basis) are more intuitive to me.  I can attach the rockers.kti file if 
you want, but really, it's so simple to change these keys, just place 
the altered /input/ht/rockers.kti in /etc/xdg/brltty/rockers.kti and 
change whatever you want in the latter.


Thanks Dave for describing the process.  I'll be trying to find th list 
of commands to which I can remap because I didn't find the list itself, 
but I believe it's in the manual.


Vincent


On 3/9/2018 7:07 PM, Shérab wrote:
> Dear Vincent and all,
>
> I started to use an HandyTech ActiveStar 40 one week ago, too.
>
> Although I do not use the internal notetaker and have thus no idea about
> what the reference bindings are, I also considered altering the
> bindings that come with brltty, because I find some of them a bit counter
> intuitive or unpractical.
>
> I agree that the bindings used to change the currnet window, for
> instance, could be improved, atleast on my device. The ones you suggest,
> Vincent, look more natural to me, too.
>
> Best wishes and many thanks for having started this thread,
>
> Shérab.
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