Re: Braille device (chardev/baum.c) is unable to detect the TTY correctly and does not act on graphic console connect/disconnect

2019-11-15 Thread Teemu Kuusisto
I totally agree with everything you said! That would allow accessible use of remote virtual machines, which I initially thought of as rather unnecessary but it definitely is not. I just did not dare to even think of the new possibilities it would offer! Brlapi already has a file descriptor. Cou

Braille device (chardev/baum.c) is unable to detect the TTY correctly and does not act on graphic console connect/disconnect

2019-11-14 Thread Teemu Kuusisto
Hello, As a blind developer I would be very happy to use QEMU's baum chardev for a braille display. Unfortunately, this device fails to detect the tty in which the spice client is running. I would like to improve this device but I don't yet know how to achieve a better solution. The current co

Re: Braille device (chardev/baum.c) is unable to detect the TTY correctly and does not act on graphic console connect/disconnect

2019-11-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 14 nov. 2019 14:27:12 +0100, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 14 nov. 2019 14:08:41 +0100, a ecrit: > > The way to properly fix it is to add a brlapi channel to spice: > > And that would be workable through a spice agent as well, so that > braille management from orca

Re: Braille device (chardev/baum.c) is unable to detect the TTY correctly and does not act on graphic console connect/disconnect

2019-11-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 14 nov. 2019 14:08:41 +0100, a ecrit: > The way to properly fix it is to add a brlapi channel to spice: And that would be workable through a spice agent as well, so that braille management from orca running inside the guest could talk directly through to brltty running on

Re: Braille device (chardev/baum.c) is unable to detect the TTY correctly and does not act on graphic console connect/disconnect

2019-11-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Teemu Kuusisto, le jeu. 14 nov. 2019 14:09:15 +0200, a ecrit: > As a blind developer I would be very happy to use QEMU's baum chardev for a > braille display. Unfortunately, this device fails to detect the tty in which > the spice client is running. Ah indeed that case was never looked a