Bug#680636: gdm3: I cannot use my braille keyboard

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, le Sun 07 Apr 2013 22:50:50 +0200, a écrit :
> I have fixed this bug by patching gnome-session and gdm3 to add back a
> directory where to place .desktop files that are started in the gdm session
> (for bug #689559).

Oh! Great! I was indeed sad that gdm would not be accessible.

> I have done that and tested it. xbrlapi is started in the gdm session, but
> it exits here because brltty1 is not available.
> 
> openConnection: connect: No such file or directory
> cannot connect to brltty at :0
> 
> I suppose this is because I don't have the necessary hardware and that's a
> normal thing.

Yes. Although you can for instance configure brltty to use its TTY
driver and use e.g. a named pipe as device.

Samuel