On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 09:32:39PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Corinna Vinschen, le Thu 08 Dec 2011 09:47:45 +0100, a ?crit : >> Too bad. In that case, Samuel, can you please have a closer look to >> see what broke brltty? > >The switch to mintty, simply. Brltty uses ReadConsoleOutputCharacter() >to get the text from consoles, I bet mintty does not implement this. >Lars thus needs cygwin to be able to run from a standard windows console >too. > >> I have not the faintest idea how to test it > >Install brltty, and run > >brltty -b xw > >When the focus is on a windows console, a window on the top of the >screen will show up, representing the output that would show up on a >braille device. > >> and how to see if it works or not. > >Try to switch to mintty, the window will disappear, because >ReadConsoleOutputCharacter will stop working.
So, then, don't use mintty with brltty. If it is an issue, you as the package maintainer, should provide a way to start brltty from a Windows console. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
