[BRLTTY] Brltty support on OpenBSD

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Mon Jun 26 11:57:58 EDT 2023


On Sun, 25 Jun 2023, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Crystal Kolipe on 2023/06/25 at 21:17 -0300]
> 
> >It's certainly possible to patch OpenBSD to implement a screen readout device that would potentially allow brltty to access the console independently of any particular login session, just like it does on Linux systems.
> 
> For the screen driver, we need to know the cursor's coordinates (column, row), the screen's dimensions (columns, rows), and the characters' Unicode values. Two nice extras would be colour information for each character and a way to inject input.

... and ideally a notification mechanism to be used whenever a screen 
change occurs for BRLTTY not to have to manually poll and compare the 
content constantly.


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