Re: How to remap keyboard

Scott,

Got it, works fine.  Thanks for the help.

Are you using linux and tn5250 in production there for everyone?  Or are
you just playing with it?

-Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux5250-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:linux5250-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 8:09 AM
> To: 'Linux 5250 Development Project'
> Subject: [LINUX5250] Re: How to remap keyboard
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Yes, I'm sure that will help a lot.  I believe those are the details
> I've been missing (and not able to find very well explained)
>   Right not busy with other higher priority items, should get 
> to that in
> a couple days though and I'll let you know if I got it working.
> 
>   Yes, that Milwaukee Valve.  Except I'm only at that office 
> maybe once
> a week.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux5250-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:linux5250-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
> > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 5:15 PM
> > To: Linux 5250 Development Project
> > Subject: [LINUX5250] Re: How to remap keyboard
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > To add to my last message...
> > 
> > If you need to use per-user changes (i.e. not everyone on the 
> > system uses
> > the same keyboard mappings) then probably the ~/.Xdefaults 
> file is the
> > best way.
> > 
> > I think what you may be doing wrong is that you're not including
> > everything that belongs in the file.
> > 
> > It's important to understand that .Xdefaults is not part of 
> > TN5250.  It's
> > part of X11!  You can use it for a LOT of different things, keyboard
> > mapping in tn5250 is just one of many.
> > 
> > Here is a very simple ~/.Xdefaults file that just changes the Return
> > and Right Control keys:
> > 
> > xt5250*VT100.Translations: #override\n\
> >         <Key>Control_R: string("\n") \n\
> >         <Key>Return: string("\030")
> > 
> > note that the \n\ at the end of each line is a "continuation" 
> > thing... it
> > tells X11 that the following line is part of the same 
> > configuration set...
> > 
> > So, if you had settings for multiple programs, it might look 
> > like this:
> > 
> > xt5250*VT100.Translations: #override\n\
> >         <Key>Control_R: string("\n") \n\
> >         <Key>Return: string("\030")
> > 
> > vi*VT100.Translations: #override\n\
> >     <Key>KP_Enter: string("\n") \n\
> >         <Key>Insert: string("i")
> > 
> > xterm*VT100.Translations: #override\n\
> >     <Key>F9: string("\033OA")
> > 
> > Maybe that'll help...
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Scott Klement wrote:
> > >
> > > Ignore the whole ".Xdefaults" and ".Xresources" idea.  
> Instead, make
> > > your changes in /usr/local/share/tn5250/XTerm  (it might be 
> > installed
> > > somewhere else on your system, tho... you might need to 
> do something
> > > like "find / | grep tn5250/XTerm" to find it.
> > > (and make sure you capitalize the X & T in XTerm)
> > >
> > > There are already keyboard mappings set up in that file, so you'll
> > > be able to see what needs to be done a little bit better.
> > >
> > > This only works when using the xterm version of tn5250 
> > (xt5250).  For
> > > other versions, you need to the keyboard mapping differently.
> > >
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