Re: In case Orca looses access to BrlAPI
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Oct 2025 07:41:21 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.accessibility |
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| Organization | Hypra |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, Le 01/10/2025 à 17:19, Sébastien Hinderer a écrit : > Hello, > > I don't know why but Orca had lost its access to BrlAPI. > > I think this goes thourhg pollkit for years now, so the following fix > may very well be nothing more thand a dirty workaround, but at least it > works. Thanks for the report, I experience the same but randomly, hence I dont report. In some circumstances BRLTTY stopa and restarts using orca, in particular brlapi indeed > > I created a brraille system group on my machine, made /etc/brlapi.key > belong to that group and added my user as well as thelightdm user to > that group. DO you mean the group name is braille? The only problem is that future upgrade of brlapi will need to be updated manually to keep this permissions I guess. sBest regards > > That way I have braille both before and after login. > > Seb. >