Hello, So, now in Slint brltty works, espeakup works, orca works and can speak to a braille device through BrlAPI. So far, so good. :-)
But users expect to be able to start in console mode, do some stuff, launch a desktop with "startx", then switch between the desktop and the console. For instance they type startx from tty1, then from one of the desktops: Firefox, LXDE, Fvwm, Blackbox, Xfce; WindowMaker and maybe KDE for now, as speech doesn't seem to work in Twm, go back to console mode. >From the desktop typing e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F2 to go to /dev/tty2 >From /dev/tty2 typing Ctrl+Alt+F7 to go back to the desktop. But currently if espeakup is started just before login, it continues to speak the messages displayed on /dev/tty1 and speech is not available on the desktop (using pulseaudio, autostarted for each user upon login, not run system-wide) . This issue has been described in this report log: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=864829 I came upon what seems to me rather a workaround in this post: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=257488#p257488 Incidentally, how can the user without a braille device know when to type her login name then her password if espeak is not started? There is spd-say but I don't know how to link that to /bin/login... I saw that plop https://www.plop.at/en/ploplinux/live/brl.html uses spd-say to give instructions before starting the desktop, but that doesn't read the screen (or with a very tricky redirection?) Of course I am ready to post this issue in another place where it would possibly better fit. Didier _______________________________________________ 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.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty
