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
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.
>