[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on November 17, 2002, at 08:42] >Brltty 3.1 is listed as supporting Solaris 7 and above. At our site people >are using Solaris 8, usually on a Sun machine, and have something called >(approximately) the Common Desktop. It appears to be some sort of fullscreen >interface, though whether it's any more graphical than emacs I don't know. >Does anyone know anything about this and whether brltty can make sense of >it? It's a fully graphical desktop which BRLTTY cannot yet use. We're looking into solving this problem by adding a bridge between BRLTTY and Gnopernicus (the Gnome 2.0 screen reader). That, however, hasn't been done yet. In the mean time, BRLTTY for Solaris works in conjunction with the screen program. A needed patch to screen-3.9.11 is provided with the BRLTTY distribution. >Is switching to a command line interface more involved than simply >removing a line from /etc/profile? The way to disable Solaris's graphical desktop is, as root, to do: dtconfig -d -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me EMail: dave@mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell. http://familyradio.com _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list