Re: Thanks -- LINUX5250


Hi Joao,

> 
> P.S. - If you don't want me to mail you directly tell me I will post
> this in LINUX5250.
> 

Please post your requests to LINUX5250, not me directly.  The reason for
this is simple...   although I am familiar with tn5250, and will help you
whenever I can, there are a lot of things that I _don't_ know.

Therefore, posting to linux5250 makes more sense.  There are a lot of
people, and the ones who know the answer to your question can post a
reply, the ones that don't can learn from your questions & their answers!

I'll send a cc: of this message to the list, as well.


>
> "Who can I with xt5250 put my sessions in full screen (maximized).
> When I start a session it only displays in 80x25 (xterm resolution), I
> tryed to change the geometri in xt5250 file to 160x50 but when it
> connect to the AS400 the session get 80x25 again."
> 

If you truly want "full-screen", why not switch to a console mode 
session, and run tn5250 instead of xt5250?  That'll be a full screen
session.

When you say a geometry of 160x50, this means that your xterm will be 160
columns wide by 50 rows high.  A nice idea, however, the 5250 protocol
only supports two different terminal sizes, 80x24 and 132x27.  Tn5250 adds
a status line at the bottom, so the geometry of the xterm session must
be either 80x25 or 132x28.  This is a limitation of the AS/400's 5250 
protocol, not a limitation of the tn5250 software.

What you probably want to do, rather than changing the geometry, is to
make the font size larger.  This will force the xterm to take up a larger
portion of the screen.

On my system, I can hold down the ctrl key and right click in my xt5250
session, and it'll let me change the font size for that session, making
it larger or smaller.  

If you wanted to make that change permanent, you could change the xt5250
script, as you suggested, but change the font size, not the geometry.
(maybe "man xterm" would help you do this, since I dont know the command
off the top of my head)

> 
> By the way who can I download gnome-5250 from CVS?
> 

similar to getting tn5250 from CVS, except use "checkout gnome-5250",
like this:

cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.cleveland.lug.net:/tn5250' checkout gnome-5250

then:
    cd gnome-5250
    ./autogen.sh
    ./configure
    make
    su root
    make install

Please be aware that the gnome-5250 (and its accompanying gtk-5250) aren't
finished yet.  Not all features on them work at this time.

Please post followups to linux5250@midrange.com


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