Re: Another TN5250 issue

I have a launcher on the Gnome desktop that calls "xt5250 BRCC2" with BRCC2
being the name of our AS/400 server, as specified in the
/usr/local/etc/tn5250rc file as follows:
BRCC2 {
host = 192.168.1.200
env.DEVNAME=BRCC2
env.TERM = IBM-3477-FC
+local_print_key
+uninhibited
}




-----Original Message-----
From: linux5250-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux5250-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of James Rich
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 2:50 PM
To: Linux 5250 Development Project
Subject: Re: [LINUX5250] Another TN5250 issue

On Fri, 28 May 2010, John Aldrich wrote:

Ok, I set up a profile (as previously mentioned) and when that user logs

in

and tries to hit her F3 key, it locks up, but when *I* log in and use the

F3

key to exit out of a menu or clear a message, it works fine, but every

time

she tries, it gives her the error "function key not allowed." In the
true-blue IBM client on Windows, her account lets her use the F3 key all

the

time, just in TN5250, it doesn't work. As previously mentioned, I can't

seem

to get it to change the background or text color either. :-(

John, can you tell us *exactly* how you are running tn5250? Are you
starting an xterm and then running the tn5250 command, or are you doing
something else? Are you using the xt5250 command? Are you running
directly on the linux console or within X11? If you have a GUI desktop
you are running within X11.

James Rich

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when you're done reading them :)
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