brltty
Daemon that provides access to the Linux/Unix console for a blind person
BRLTTY is a background process (daemon) which provides access to the Linux/Unix console (when in text mode) for a blind person using a refreshable braille display. It drives the braille display, and provides complete screen review functionality. Some speech capability has also been incorporated.
homepage ↗ cpe: cpe:/a:mielke:brltty github: brltty/brltty
Available in
| Overlay | Newest | Ebuilds | Last activity | |
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| gentoo gitweb ↗ | 6.9.1 | 4 | 16 h | details › |
Versions & arches
| Version | Overlay | amd64 | arm64 | x86 | ppc64 | riscv | alpha | arm | loong | ppc | sparc | Committed | |
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| 6.9.1 | gentoo | amd64 stable | arm64 stable | x86 stable | ppc64 stable | riscv testing | alpha testing | arm testing | loong testing | ppc testing | sparc testing | — | view · download · history ↗ |
| 6.9 | gentoo | amd64 testing | arm64 testing | x86 testing | ppc64 testing | riscv testing | alpha testing | arm testing | loong testing | ppc testing | sparc testing | — | view · download · history ↗ |
| 6.8 | gentoo | amd64 stable | arm64 stable | x86 stable | ppc64 stable | riscv testing | alpha testing | arm testing | loong testing | ppc testing | sparc testing | — | view · download · history ↗ |
| 6.7 | gentoo | amd64 stable | arm64 stable | x86 stable | ppc64 stable | riscv testing | alpha testing | arm testing | loong testing | ppc testing | sparc untested | — | view · download · history ↗ |
Use flags of 6.9.1
- +api build brltty's application program interface
- +beeper support the console tone generator
- bluetooth Enable Bluetooth Support
- caps Use Linux capabilities library to control privilege
- +fm support for the sound card synthesizer
- gpm Add support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse driver)
- +hid support for opening and closing a HID device
- iconv Enable support for the iconv character set conversion library
- icu Enable ICU (Internationalization Components for Unicode) support, using dev-libs/icu
- louis Use braille translator dev-libs/liblouis
- +midi support the musical instrument digital interface
- ncurses Add ncurses support (console display library)
- nls Add Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities)
- +pcm support for sound card digital audio
- policykit Enable PolicyKit (polkit) authentication support
- +pcre Add support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
- usb Add USB support to applications that have optional USB support (e.g. cups)
- systemd Enable use of systemd-specific libraries and features like socket activation or session tracking
- +speech Enable text-to-speech support
- xml Add support for XML files
- X Add support for X11
- emacs Add support for GNU Emacs
- java Add support for Java
- lua Enable Lua scripting support
- ocaml Add support/bindings for the Ocaml language
- python Add optional support/bindings for the Python language
- tcl Add support the Tcl language
- +ocamlopt Enable ocamlopt support (ocaml native code compiler) -- Produces faster programs (Warning: you have to disable/enable it at a global scale)
4 expansion flags (python targets, ABIs, cpu flags…)
- +lua_single_target_lua5-4
- python_targets_python3_12
- python_targets_python3_13
- python_targets_python3_14
Runtime dependencies of 6.9.1
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