[BRLTTY] Using BrlAPI clients in tmux (wass: Linux console hacking (was: Re: Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux))

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2026/04/08 at 15:42 +0300]

>Now that I tested the tmux screen driver, the local brltty actually took over
>the whole console system so that it always displays contents of tmux
>regardless of which VT I switch to. I don't understand why this happens.

That's why the brltt-tmux command exists. It goes through the necessary mechaics to firgure out which VT you're on. It needs to be run as root for that, though, so if you ddidn't start tmux as root then use brltt-tmux's -s (sudo) option. Note that this only works for the top-most tmux session.

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