Hi, Sorry, I am getting seriously mixed up.
I can press keys on the braille display and things do change. When I did the test, I was in a text terminal. However, when I write python code and run the scripts, I get speech output from the linux server but no braille. Pranav -----Original Message----- From: BRLTTY <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chevelle Sent: Friday, March 21, 2025 12:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Understanding brltty on a linux machine Are you using a graphical window such as mate-terminal? Are you saying pressing keys on the Braille display doesn't work? On 3/20/25 12:17, Pranav Lal wrote: > Hi Aura, > > Thanks for your explanation. I understand what you are saying but the thing > is that I do not even feel the pins move. > > How do I issue brltty commands? When I wrote about moving, I was moving by > pressing the intermediate up arrow key on my qwerty keyboard. > > Pranav > > -----Original Message----- > From: BRLTTY <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Aura Kelloniemi > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2025 2:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Understanding brltty on a linux machine > > Hi! > > On 2025-03-20 at 05:21 +0530, "Pranav Lal" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have brltty running on my arch linux system. At the bash prompt, if I > do > Echo test > I do not see the word test. However, if I scroll up, then > I can read the > command in the buffer. > > If you run "echo test", you will of cours see the new command prompt on the > braille display, because the prompt is printed after "test" and because the > screen cursor is located at the end of the prompt. I believe this is clear > to you. > > Now, if you use the LNUP (line up) command of BRLTTY, you should see the > word "test" or an empty braille window, if the command prompt was longer > than your braille display. LNUP command does not move the braille window to > the left side of the terminal, it just moves one line up keeping the braille > window's left edge where it was. To get to see the beginning of the line you > need to use FWINLT (full window left), LNBEG (line beginning) or a similar > command. > > But if scrolling up immediately shows the previous command prompt (and your > echocommand), it could be that you have invoked the PRPROMPT BRLTTY command > (which stands for previous prompt). It scrolls up in the terminal window > until it finds something that looks like a command prompt. > > Hopefully this helps. > > -- > Aura > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general > information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty > > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
