Are you sure orca is running? Go to another console and type ps afxwww|grep orca and see if you get an orca process.
Amanda Lacy <lacy...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm able to cat the brlapi.key file. My user is in the sudo group and > the file is associated with root. Can you think of anything else I > might check? Thanks. > > On 7/6/16, Mike Gorse <mgo...@alum.wpi.edu> wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Jul 2016, Dave Mielke wrote: > > > >>> I'm using a Vinux VM on my Mac. BRLTTY displays the message in the > >>> subject line instead of what's on the screen. How do I fix it? > >> > >> Brltty shows "screen not in text mode" when your system is switched to a > >> graphical console and a graphical screen reader (like Orca) isn't running. > >> In > >> your case, my guess is that your system is booting to an X console. I > >> suspect > >> that what you need to do is to switch to a text console. > > > > It might also mean that orca isn't able to authenticate with brltty, since > > orca interacts with brltty through an API that requires authentication. > > Authentication can be done in several ways, and I'm not sure how vinux > > does things, but normally your user needs to be able to read > > /etc/brlapi.key. It is likely that that file is group-readable, so make > > sure that your user is a member of the group that brlapi.key is associated > > with. > > > > -Mike > > _______________________________________________ > > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > > To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc > > For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty > > > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc > For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
