[BRLTTY] Brltty on windows

Chevelle cstrobel at crosslink.net
Thu Dec 22 22:38:52 EST 2022


     It almost sounds like the older version of BRLTTY is still 
installed.  You could go to Add/Remove Programs and remove BRLTTY and do 
a clean reinstall.


On 12/22/2022 5:04 PM, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Dietmar Segbert on 2022/12/22 at 08:32 +0100]
>
>> brlap is enabled and run-brltty works in a window.
> You shouldn't be doing both since that'd mean two brltty processes trying to control the same braille device. If you're using enable-brlapi then check service.log, and if you're using run-brltty or debug-brltty then check brltty.log.
>
>> On the combibralle is the text "no windows in foreground".
> That confirms that one of the brltty processes is communicating successfully with the braille device. That message - no windows in foreground - would have to do with how the Windows screen driver is seeing things.
>
>> If i start the Brlapi-0.8.4.win-amd64.exe in the "python" directory under
>> ../brltty/ a setup starts and did not find the python 32 bit version and
>> did not compile something.
> Unless you're actually using BrlAPI via its Python bindings, that shouldn't matter.
>
>> python 3.8.7 32bit ist installed. It is to find under the C:\Users\...
>> python\python38\.
> I think it'd be unlikely that something at the system level would be looking there.
>


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