On 17.03.2009 at 17:00:05 Dave Mielke <[email protected]> wrote: > [quoted lines by Hermann on 2009/03/17 at 16:39 +0100] > >>In SBL, there are settings files - so called profiles - to define which >>color combination is defined as an attribute. It is possible to set >>several such attributes, and you can define how many of them are watched >>- regularly one. > > One profile per program? I doubt that works all the time because one program > can run another one, e.g. screen or telnet. > I guess for this case there's the possibility to select several attributes be watched. But in fact there is one profile for one program. And I think when one programm calls another, you simply have to set up a profile for that new one. Only one program is in the forground, or am I wrong?
> So let's design what brltty should support. Should we go the sbl route and > have > program profiles and attempt to figure out which program is currently > running? > Another possibility is to have a routing key based command which instructs > brltty to use the attributes of the selected character when searching for an > attribute cursor. Are there any other alternatives to consider? > I thin the second solutio is not that good, since such an attribute cursor can match several characters. So I would prefer the SBL way. But in general: How do Brltty users handle such programs like the alsamixer or mc? Are they simply be ignored? Hermann _______________________________________________ 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://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
