[BRLTTY] Braille keyboard

[Adrian P. van Bloois]

You can switch that on in the preference menu unde braille typing.
On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 02:45:28PM +0200, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
> I will ask a question on behalf of an acquaintance. She's running Ubuntu
> 22.04.5 LTS with BRLTTY version 6.4, and has a Brailliant BI20X display.
> Her problem is that she isn't able to use the braille keyboard for
> input, neither in the terminal, nor in GUI. Also, she had to start
> BRLTTY manually.
> 
> I told her to do `sudo systemctl enable brltty` from the terminal and restart.
> 
> Then BRLTTY started automatically, but she is still not able to use the
> keyboard.
> 
> I asked her to send me output from `brltty --version`, and here's the
> content:
> 
> BRLTTY 6.4 rev BRLTTY-6.4 [https://brltty.app/]
> brltty: Log Level: none
> brltty: Messages Locale: nb_NO.UTF-8
> brltty: Messages Domain: brltty
> brltty: Messages Directory: /usr/share/locale
> brltty: Autospeak Threshold: none
> brltty: Privilege Parameter: path=
> brltty: Privilege Parameter: scfmode=
> brltty: Privilege Parameter: shell=
> brltty: Privilege Parameter: user=
> brltty: can't isolate namespaces
> brltty: executing as the invoking user: elisabeth
> brltty: can't set supplementary groups
> brltty: group not joined: 0(root)
> brltty: group not joined: 5(tty)
> brltty: group not joined: 20(dialout)
> brltty: group not joined: 29(audio)
> brltty: group not joined: 107(input)
> brltty: group not joined: 133(pulse-access)
> brltty: required capability not granted: cap_sys_admin (for injecting
> input characters typed on a braille device)
> brltty: required capability not granted: cap_sys_tty_config (for
> playing alert tunes via the built-in PC speaker)
> brltty: required capability not granted: cap_mknod (for creating
> needed but missing special device files)
> brltty: Copyright © 1995-2021 by The BRLTTY Developers
> brltty: BrlAPI Server: release 0.8.3
> brltty:    Copyright (C) 2002-2021 by Sébastien Hinderer
> <Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org>, Samuel Thibault
> <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>
> 
> Do you have any idea on how she can reach her goal?
> 
> Thanks, Lars
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