Re: tn5250 Questions . . .

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmmm... I know the GTK version was going to do its own keymapping...  but
I believe Jason has simply been too busy to work on it.

Other than that, I don't know of any work...    For a situation where an
external terminal is connecting, I don't see how this COULD work.  Not all
the keypresses generate unique codes that it could look for...

For example, how would you make the left ctrl key be error-reset?  By
itself, it doesn't send any escape codes, unless you modify your keyboard
map (ala loadkeys or kbdcontrol under FreeBSD) 

With an external terminal, that's not really an option.

Sure, if you wanted to make this a Linux-specific deal, you could
interface with the keyboard directly.  But that wouldn't help the external
terminal issue...


On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Jasper O'Malley wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Scott Klement wrote:
> 
> > 
> > First thing to understand is...   tn5250 doesn't do any keyboard mapping.
> > At all.  None.  It's done by Linux and the terminal.
> 
> This reminds me, someone once talked about getting tn5250 to do internal
> keymapping, a la the BSD tn3270 app. This setup seems to make more sense
> to me, in that it would allow one to correctly report one's actual
> terminal type (or emulated terminal type) to the operating system, and
> have the app map 5250 keys to your terminal's keys. Does anyone know if
> any work has been done on this, yet? Just out of curiosity. I'd be lying
> if I said I had the time to do it m'self, but I was just wondering ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> Mick
> 
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