Re: using kvm with brltty

[Halim Sahin <halim.sahin@freenet.de>]

Hi Samuel,
I am confused a bit.
How does this work $WINDOWID is this an environment variable?
$WINDOWSID is not set on my machine :-(, who sets it?

Should your mentioned bug reported to upstream?
Regards Halim





Am 14.09.20 um 21:53 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> Hello,
>
> Halim Sahin, le lun. 14 sept. 2020 10:29:15 +0200, a ecrit:
> > Now I tried to use kvm to install a debian buster vm.
> >
> > qemu-system-x86_64 -m 4G -usb -usbdevice braille -cdrom debian...netinst.iso
> > .....
> >
> > qemu starts up and info usb in qemu console displays a braille device but
> > nothing was displayed on the connected braille display.
>
> It seems a bug slipped in indeed for the non-sdl display case. You can
> run
>
> export WINDOWPATH=${WINDOWPATH:+${WINDOWPATH}:}$WINDOWID
>
> before calling qemu-system-x86_64, and use -display curses, so the
> braille input/output correctly gets routed through your terminal window.
>
> Samuel