Re: Keyboard mapping/translation

["Hutchison, Jeff" <jhut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Martin Rowe wrote:

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> My main problem, as a newbie to Linux, is getting the function keys,
> backspace, delete, etc to work right. I've followed the instructions in the
> README, but a tic 5250.terminfo and loadkeys uk5250.map still don't do the
> trick. In a standard xterm with xt5250, F5 to F12 work as expected, F1 to
> F4, and F13 - F24 don't. If I use the Meta key sequence (M-1 through M-+)
> then they work, with the exception of F14 & F15. I get a beep (as if it's
> an invalid key) but nothing else. I've tried on a number of screen that use
> those keys (SEU, WRKSPLF, plus some of our own applications) and it's the
> same for all. If I'm running tn5250 at the console, then F1-F20 work, but
> not F21-F24 (using the F keys or M-( to M-+ ).  Getting backspace & delete
> to work is also proving difficult (though delete works fine if run in kvt,
> rather than an xterm).

This is a wild guess, but maybe your window manager (KDE) is absorbing the
missing function keys?  I've had problems with XEmacs due to this.  Can
you check key bindings or try another?
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