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

Alexander Epaneshnikov aarnaarn2 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 11:09:59 EST 2020


21.12.2020 18:24, Frans-WIllem Post пишет:
> 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
>
you need to use brlapi group not brltty.
can you look group that owns /etc/brlapi.key file? basecly you need to make
this file readable by your user. then orca should be working with brltty.

-- 
Sincerely, Alexander.



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