Shockingly, it was my fault!  And it was pretty straightforward too.  I'm not 100% sure, but I think, since I had saved the file on Windows, when I tried to copy it back (didn't do it with scp either) it kept the Windows line format which probably broke the configuration. I've now changed these and everything works.  I'll post a guide, to remember how I did it, I can't forget each time I get a new computer!

Dave: I don't really know why I installed this, it was the default version when I apt-get install brltty. I hadn't apt-get update before though, perhaps it will get updated.

Cheers,
Vincent

On 11/25/2020 4:42 PM, Dave Mielke wrote:
[quoted lines by Vincent Le Goff on 2020/11/25 at 14:35 +0100]

I know this has been answered many, many times on this list and David is
probably not happy about yet a new message on this topic,
Oh, I'm very unhappy for sure! :-)

but I can't seem to find the proper process.
That isn't a crime. :-)

I've finally acquired a small computer running Linux, have installed BRLTTY
(5.6)
Why such an old release? I doubt that's the cause of your problem, but I'm
still curious as to why one wouldn't install the latest.

This was a modified version of the file found in 'Tables/Input/ht/rockers.kti'
on the BRLTTY main branch.
That's risky. You should always use files from the same release that you're
running. Again, in this case, I don't think it'd be much of a problem.

Hu, where to place this modified file?  So I looked up readme.customize and
found that I needed to place the file in /etc/xdg/brltty.
Yes, that's the right place to put it.

So I wrote the file in /etc/xdg/brltty/rockers.kti, rebooted my little
computer and... well, my old key binding file didn't work.  Pressing on most
keys on the Braille display didn't have any impact.  What was wrong?
In a case like this, the log is usually your friend. Use brltty's -L
(uppercase) option to write its log to a known file, and then post it so that
we can have a llok. For example:

    brltty -L/tmp/brltty.log

Adding -ldeubg (this l is lowercase) would also be helpful.

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