Enable more braille keys via BRLTTY

[gregjozk]

Currently users, who use BRLTTY as their display, can use only five of many commands. Is it possible to enable more of them?

Jožef

[jcsteh]

The issue here is finding good mappings for the BRLTTY commands, as they don't seem to map overly well. Are you a BRLTTY console user? Do you have some feeling as to what BRLTTY commands should map to what NVDA commands?

P4 because this affects only a few users.

[Adriani90]

cc: @bramd, @Andre9642

[LeonarddeR]

@gregjozk Are you still interested in getting this fixed?

[gregjozk]

Hello, right now, no, due to having a protocol converter, which successfully converted my Satellite 44 to BC6 (enabled more or less all key combinations except of status cells) but it was not a skope of this issue. however others, who are not so happy than me, mey benefitt from this PR (see Narrator's documentation) anyway thanks for your excelant work. 2020-04-28 19:32 GMT+02.00, Leonard de Ruijter <notifications@github.com>:

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[hss16]

Hi Folks,
I am also interested in brlinput support for brltty (for my Handy Tech) brailledisplay.
Let me explain why I can't use the Handytech Driver of nvda:

My Machine runs Linux and windows with nvda in a kvm based virtual machine.
I was able to forward my BrlAPi port to the windows guest and can now use my brailledisplay in linux and windows.

I think having brlpinput support over brltty could improve thing a bit :-).
Thx

[Adriani90]

Hmm this is going to be very complex if you want to cover every braille display. I think the HID standard will replace this at some point.
Here is a list of all possible key bindings for a full keyboard, so one would have to compare wich key bindings are common on most braille displays and match them with this list. Also for other braille displays, I think it would be better to have specific issues covering the braille display and the keys that need to be mapped.
https://brltty.app/doc/KeyBindings/kbd-desktop.html