[BRLTTY] Reading 132 Column Screens with 80 Column Braille

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by wmichaelb at fuse.net on 2018/11/15 at 12:33 -0500]

>even with only 80 columns displayed by tty, he still misses the first few
>letters on the left of a line. The behavior starts after he logs into his unix
>shell account and selects either Pine or Lynx, or changes from one to the
>other. Pushing button 3 gives him all the letters on the left, and therefore
>all the letters in one line since the display is set to 80 columns. Is there a
>way to set the default location to the left braille window?

It sounds like the cursor may be starting out quite a way to the right and one
of the sliding window preferences is set. Can you please post (an attachment
will be fine) the file /var/lib/brltty/brltty.prefs?

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