[BRLTTY] Workaround for wrong Orca session detection

[Julian]

Hello Samuel,

thank you for your quick reply.

Well no, I didn't install the OS myself. The VM pool is on a server, and 
I'm connecting to it using my laptop and a dedicated VMware client - but 
I have access to the deployment scripts of the VM and they don't set 
something special regarding BRLTTY or X-Sessions.

As for starting, I'm not pretty sure how this is done since our VMware 
solution handles the login automatically, but I believe it is GDM3.

Anyway, I found a workaround that makes the connection work: First I 
have to stop the brltty-udev service that was automatically spawned, and 
then launch brltty manually with the switch -x auto. Not all navigation 
keys work, but at least I could read most of the output.

Sorry that I can't send you the Orca logs right now, but currently I 
don't have access to my business laptop.

Best regards, Julian

Am 07.10.22 um 23:25 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> Hello,
>
> Julian, le jeu. 06 oct. 2022 12:10:38 +0200, a ecrit:
>> While I already reported the bug to VMware, does anyone of you maybe
>> know a workaround for this and would be willing to share it with me?
> I would doubt that it'd be a vmware-specific issue, since there
> shouldn't be anything really different concerning brlapi between a real
> machine and a VM. Did you install the OS inside vmware just like you had
> on your laptop, or did you configure some things differently? Is that
> using Xorg or wayland? How do you start the graphical session, through a
> dm such as lightdm or with e.g. startx?
>
>> Therefore, the Orca log tells me that it searches for BRLTTY on
>> session 0, and can't initialize.
> Could you paste the exact error message? I have no idea what "session 0"
> could mean between brltty and orca, I don't find any error message that
> looks like that, so we need the exact wording to be able to have the
> least start of an idea of what is going from.
>
> Samuel
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