[BRLTTY] Somwthing is missing

[Didier Spaier]

Hello,

Paul confirmed in the Slint list that the issue only occurs in a GUI.
This is with a Focus 80 Blue (5th Gen)

This has been also confirmed by another user, Pawel Loba, quoted below:
> Hello Paul, So you simply have a bigger brother of my unit. One way or the
> other, I must confirm your finding regarding the lack of input capabilities of
> Braille keyboard within the terminal and relatively poor navigation too.

Pawel later clarifies that by "terminal" in the quoted text above he actually
meant "mate-terminal" and added a few details, quoted below:
> As far as I can say, all is good in the text mode.
> After I open the graphical mode running Mate and opening the terminal with
ctrl+alt+t, there is no way to type in using the Braille keyboard which is a
part of our Braille displays. Navigation is also pretty useless with the
dedicated Braille displays' keys.

As an aside this explains why Paul had no issue during the Slint installation,
which occurs in text mode.

Now that we know that the issue occurs only in a GUI, should it be also posted
in the Orca mailing list on would that just bring confusion?

Cheers,
Didier


Le 27/08/2023 à 14:17, Adrian van Bloois a écrit :
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 01:14:28PM +0100, Life in Six Dots wrote:
>> Hello Adrian,
>>
>> You are probably right. I've been struggling with this issue for a couple of
>> months now.
>>
>> Is there a command to switch between the CLI and GUI with BRLTTY?
> I don't know, I only use brltty in text mode, no GUI.
> The issue might be in the GUI code, I don't have any issues in the tex
> mode.
> 
> 
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of Adrian van Bloois
>> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2023 1:10 PM
>> To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
>> <brltty at brltty.app>
>> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Somwthing is missing
>>
>> Hi,
>> I am absolutely sure it has nothing to do with the release of brltty.
>> I installed brltty 6.5 from the source-tree and had no problem whatsoever
>> with my new focus80 I obtained in March.
>> I upgraded brltty to 6.6 wen that was available and again flawless.y.
>> I run all that on CentOS 7.9, maybe a bit old and conservative but very very
>> stable.
>> So, it might have something to do with teh releases of Debian or Ubuntu
>> Would be my first reaction.
>>
>> 	Adrian
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 12:55:09PM +0100, Life in Six Dots wrote:
>>> Hello BRLTTY Developers,
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I am still having an issue with the braille keyboard when I do a clean 
>>> install of the latest images of Debian 12, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and 
>>> 23.04. BUT if I install a slightly older image of Ubuntu MATE 22.04 
>>> LTS I have keyboard input.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I have also installed the latest image of Slint and I did have 
>>> keyboard input during the installation but not after. The kernel 
>>> version I currently have installed in 6.1.40.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I do have keyboard input when access the TTY failsafe terminal.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I personally think it has something to do with the latest builds of 
>>> BRLTTY when it is 6.4, or 6.5. I have not tried version 6.6. I have 
>>> installed these distros on different machines to ensure it wasn't down 
>>> to some funky driver issue. And tried five different braille displays.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I've also concluded that it is not a kernel or TIOCS issue. I hope you 
>>> will investigate this.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>
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>>
>> -- 
>> 	Adri P. van Bloois
>>
>>
>> 	It's never too late for early music!!!
>>
>>
>>
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