Use and setup of TN5250 -- LINUX5250

Hi 

Can anybody help

I'm new to LINUX and am trying to use TN5250 in the KDE of SUSE 6.4.

The TN5250 string I am using is 'tn5250 -y IBM-3477-FC airor', where
airor is the name of my AS/400. This is being typed into xterm. I need
the 132 char wide screen for ILE RPG source editing

How do I add this as an icon to my KDE desktop? I use several
simultaneous sessions and find this startup method to be rather
cumbersome. A desktop icon would be much quicker.

My next problem is the keyboard/cursor handling -- it is terrible,
almost useless to an experienced AS/400 programmer used to IBM
terminals!!. Is there a keyboard map I can set up somewhere. These are
my problems.

Use of the F9 key to return commands does not put the cursor on the
command line. I use F9 a lot as a quick method of positioning the
cursor.
The Backspace key is ignored - it has no effect
The numeric key pad is ignored - it has no effect - even with num lock
on. I make extensive use of the numeric key pad.
Can we have SHIFT-F1 to F12 for function keys F13 to F24. I use these a
lot in SEU, especially F16 to search and the existing ESC -SHIFT -1 to 0
is awful, and cumbersome, certainly not fast.
Can the cursor blink - this makes it easier to find on the screen
SHIFT -TAB should cause the cursor to tab fields backwards, in the same
way that TAB moves the cursor forwards
SHIFT-ENTER should move the cursor down to the first input field on the
next or subsequent line of the display
In WRKLIBPDM etc. anything I do sends the cursor back to the top most
field of the display. The cursor should stay in the field I am using.
Constantly repositioning the cursor for every transaction is a pain in
the *** and wastes a lot of time. This is a big source of frustration
with the system.
Can the display be resized to give larger print. On a high resoltion
screen the text is rather small.
Could we have Left-CTRL for error reset.

I know this seems like a lot, but I really do want to use LINUX instead
of Windows. To be practical TN5250 also has to be usable. with the
keyboard and cursor behaving as expected. If anybody can help me sort
this out it would be most appreciated.

I do not want to modify tn5250 source code myself. I have a little
experience in 'C' but not enough to do this job and certainly not 'C++'.

Regards
Syd Nicholson
Castlehill Computer Services Ltd.
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