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<p>How to take control of ttys for direct braille display / read.  
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<p>Before being able to write on the braille display, the application must tell the server which tty it will handle.</p>
<p>The application must also specify how braille keys will be delivered to it. Two ways are possible: key codes and commands:</p>
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<li>key codes are specific to each braille driver, since the raw key code, as defined in the driver will be given for each key press. Using them leads to building highly driver-dependent applications, which can yet sometimes be useful to mimic existing proprietary applications for instance.</li>
<li>commands means that applications will get exactly the same values as <em>brltty</em>. This allows driver-independent clients, which will hopefully be nice to use with a lot of different terminals. <dl class="section see"><dt>See Also</dt><dd><a class="el" href="group__brlapi__keys.html#ga3b5ba0c43d48792e7071e772b50b9cbe">brlapi_readKey()</a> </dd></dl>
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<p>Select the default tty.</p>
<p>The library takes the following steps:</p>
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<li>Try to get the tty number from the <code>WINDOWID</code> environment variable (for the <code>xterm</code> case).</li>
<li>Try to get the tty number from the <code>CONTROLVT</code> environment variable.</li>
<li>Read <code>/proc/self/stat</code> (on <code>Linux</code>).</li>
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<p>Ask for some tty, with some key mechanism</p>
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<li>If tty&gt;=0 then take control of the specified tty.</li>
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<p>WINDOWPATH and WINDOWID should be propagated when running remote applications via ssh, for instance, along with BRLAPI_HOST and the authorization key (see SendEnv in ssh_config(5) and AcceptEnv in sshd_config(5))</p>
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<p>Ask for some tty specified by its path in the tty tree, with some key mechanism</p>
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<p>Providing nttys == 0 means to get the root.</p>
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<p>Stop controlling the tty</p>
<dl class="section return"><dt>Returns</dt><dd>0 on success, -1 on error.</dd></dl>
<dl class="section see"><dt>See Also</dt><dd><a class="el" href="group__brlapi__tty.html#ga6d8ae822fa87d9bfb1fb15ecf2bbcaac">brlapi_enterTtyMode()</a> </dd></dl>

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<p>Tell the current tty to brltty</p>
<p>This is intended for focus tellers, such as brltty, xbrlapi, screen, ... <a class="el" href="group__brlapi__tty.html#ga6d8ae822fa87d9bfb1fb15ecf2bbcaac">brlapi_enterTtyMode()</a> must have been called beforehand to tell where this focus applies in the tty tree.</p>
<dl class="section return"><dt>Returns</dt><dd>0 on success, -1 on error.</dd></dl>
<dl class="section see"><dt>See Also</dt><dd><a class="el" href="group__brlapi__tty.html#ga6d8ae822fa87d9bfb1fb15ecf2bbcaac">brlapi_enterTtyMode()</a> <a class="el" href="group__brlapi__tty.html#ga681f2c7f09e33a32a2731e4e77ce7cec">brlapi_leaveTtyMode()</a> </dd></dl>

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