[BRLTTY] Fedora 33, Braille OK on console, no Braille in GUI

Frans-WIllem Post fwpost at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 10:24:46 EST 2020


Hello,

On 21-12-2020 15:10, Alexander Epaneshnikov wrote:
> 21.12.2020 9:56, Frans-WIllem Post пишет:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Would someone be able to help me with getting BrlTTY running on Fedora 
>> 33, see below? My braille display says "Not in text mode" while in 
>> GUI. On the TTY-consoles, however, it works perfectly.
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>> Frans-Willem Post
>>
>> On 15-12-2020 21:41, Frans-WIllem Post wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Can someone point me to the steps to get BrlTTY running in GUI mode 
>>> with Orca? I'm using Fedora 33 and an X.org server instead of Wayland.
>>>
>>> On the system's TTY-consoles, BrlTTY works perfectly. I only had to 
>>> enable and start the service like this:
>>>    sudo systemctl enable brltty;
>>>    sudo systemctl start brltty;
>>>
>>> It even uses my personal Braille table, as set in /etc/brltty.conf.
>>>
>>> - In Orca (master), I have Braille support enabled.
>>> - BrlTTY is in version "6.1 rev unknown".
>>> - I'm using a Freedom Scientific Focus 40 Blue via USB, but it is 
>>> detected as a "Freedom Scientific Focus 3" by lsusb.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Frans-Willem Post
>>>
>>
>>
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> does your user in brlapi group?
> 
No, when I try to add my user to it, I get:

$ sudo usermod -aG brltty fwiep
usermod: group 'brltty' does not exist

Thanks,
Frans-Willem

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