Speakup in user space, why or why not?

[Sina Bahram]

Alright ... So those two issues are out of the way.

Again, I say ... Is it possible then?

Take care,
Sina 

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From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Lorenzo Taylor
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 11:20 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Speakup in user space, why or why not?

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According to Janina Sajka:
# In other words, you get Speakup across any and all consoles that you #
might open. In my case that's 24 consoles (or 23 on the machines where I #
also have a GUI Desktop). Try that from user space. I don't think it # could
be done.

Brltty does it.  And I don't think it's just because it uses a braille
display.
Somehow, it always has access to the currently open console in userspace.

# Then there's persistence--meaning that your access continues to function #
in the face of whatever might happen to an application you're running.
# Not only kernel panics will talk, but any application gone awry can #
often, nay usually, be brought under control from a second console.

I'm not sure about kernel panics, but brltty does this too from userspace.
While I had my braille display, if I had any trouble with an app, I could
always switch to another console to fix or kill it if necessary.

Lorenzo
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