Re: Configuring Gnopernicus for Braille Output

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Bill,

This helps a lot. Teo things. My braille terminal is an Alva 320. It is in 
serial prot 2. I have brltty running with a Braille lite 40 on port 1. 
Interestingly, brltty continues to be useful after Gnome and Gnopernicus 
are started. That is, I can still use the keyboard emulation that brltty 
provides. 

I'll let you know how I make out with gconf-tool-2. 

John
 On 12 May 2003, Bill 
Haneman wrote:

> Hi John:
> 
> I'm delighted your GARNOME build went well.  We may call on you to help
> diagnose other folks' GARNOME problems :-)
> 
> As for gnopernicus braille: as long as you have terminal access to the
> system running GNOME (with the right $PATH set up), there is a
> command-line interface to the GNOME configuration system ("gconf") which
> you can use.  Gnopernicus uses gconf to store its settings, so you can
> manually turn on braille (and turn off speech if you like).
> 
> The command-line tool is "gconftool-2", you can get a verbose help
> screen from "gconftool-2 --help" or something shorter from "gconftool-2
> --usage".
> 
> Adi is the expert in gnopernicus gconf keys but I believe the ones you
> want are:
> 
> [turn on braille]
> gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gnopernicus/srcore/br_active true
> 
> [optionally, turn off speech and "braille monitor" display for sighted
> users]
> gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gnopernicus/srcore/bm_active false
> gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gnopernicus/srcore/sp_active false
> 
> [tell gnopernicus to use ALVA380 - I don't see 370 listed]
> gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/gnopernicus/braille/device ALVA380
> 
> I think gnopernicus defaults to serial port '1', perhaps Adi can tell
> you if you need to change a setting for the serial port.  You can run
> "gconftool-2 --get ...." with the appropriate keys (you don't need the
> "--type" parameter for the GET command), to make sure the gconf key got
> set correctly.
> 
> I haven't tried this directly since I don't have an ALVA display (and
> couldn't confirm that the output was correct anyway ;-)
> 
> I hope this helps,
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 02:04, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I just built Gnopernicus in Garnome. The build went without a hitch. Now I 
> > have two questions.
> > 
> > 1 What do I put in the script that starts Gnome under garnome so that 
> > Gnopernicus will also start?
> > 
> > 2. how do I configure Gnopernicus for braille output? I am deaf as well as 
> > blind, so I will not be using speech at all. In fact, my computer doesn't 
> > even have a sound card. Gnopernicus has support for the Alva Braille 
> > Displays, and i will be using an Alva ABT320.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > John
> > 
> > 
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