On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 03:49, Francisco Tissera <audiogamer2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good day everybody, > > > > I’m Francisco, and I’m a blind high school kid who just recently started > using Fedora 33 Workstation, both for fun, and hopefully, with guidance > from you guys, for actual day to day school work. > > I have a little bit of experience using Linux. I started with Ubuntu 3 or > so months ago, almost immediately switched to Arch, to Debian, and now, I’m > trying Fedora. > > As you can see, I switched a lot, cause all those distroes, eccept arch, > somewhat, weren’t the distroes that were right for me, that’s the beauty of > Linux I guess. > > Well anyways, everything went smoothly once I booted the iso on my macbook > air, I just had to switch to Zorg so I could get the Anaconda installer > talking. > > I managed to activate all four rpm fusion repoes, some copr once, install > snap and enable flatpak, and all the initial stuff without a single problem. > > Now though, there is one problem, that I don’t like at all: being both a > speach and braille user, I use Orca as my screen reader with Gnome, and > BRLTTY, which you might have heard of. > > Now, this question is mostly for blind users that might be in here, but of > course, everyone who has experience with this sort of thing can answer. > > I had to enable the bRLTTY daemon with systemctl enable brltty as sudo > user, and that went fine. > > Problem is, even though BRLTTY starts up as it is supposed too, my Focus > 40 with which I’m using the thing with, shows me “screen not in text mode”, > which, I guess, means that something’s wrong. > My experience with a blind user was decades ago, but at that time the available software did not support graphical screens. From https://github.com/brltty/brltty: "BRLTTY is a background process (daemon) providing access to the Linux/Unix console (when in text mode) for a blind person using a refreshable braille display." You may be used to switching to a console using <Ctrl+Alt F1>, but in Fedora that gets you the GUI login like <Ctrl+Alt F7> in other distros. You can use <Ctrl+Alt F2> for a text console. I don’t know what though, and I can say that with the other distores it > just worked out of the box. > > So my question is, has anyone experienced this problem? Does anyone know a > solution to this, for me, huge deal? Using brltty 6.1, the one that comes > inclooded with F33. > > Thank you all, and best regards, > > Francisco. > -- George N. White III
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