[BRLTTY] Skip identical blank lines setting seems to impact Orca

Chevelle cstrobel at purelymail.com
Mon Apr 6 12:53:55 UTC 2026



On 4/4/26 5:40 PM, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Chevelle on 2026/04/01 at 10:11 -0400]
>
>> when I test this, I still get the same results as before either using
>> Brltty 6.9-3 on Debian Testing, or compiling it myself and using the
>> 'run-brltty' script.  I'm attaching a Python script you can run that will
>> show the key being pressed.  Can you give it a try and change the 'skip
>> Identical blank lines' setting and see if it works for you?
>> When I change the setting to yes it shows 'PRDIFLN'.
>> When I change the setting to no it shows 'LNUP'.
>> Same for 'NXDIFLN' and 'LNDN'.
>> Dave mentioned that the 'Skip Blank Braille Window' setting can also have an
>> impact, but I'm not sure which key that impacts.
> This isn't my experience when I use apitest -l. Perhaps you aren't actually running the latest code.
>
Ok, what process do you use to run the development code?
1. Change to root user?
2.  'systemctl stop brltty'?
3.  Change to git/brltty and run './run-brltty'?
I'm not sure if this is documented.
Thanks.


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