Re: [LINUX5250] HOWTO keymap seperate users

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 06 November 2001 10:51 pm, James Rich wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Egan, Matt B. (Artco) wrote:
> > Yeah that was after logging off and what not and it was running
> > xt5250 in xterm. And it does change the cursor color just nothing
> > else.
>
> Okay now that I think about it I'm pretty sure the colors are
> hard-coded into the program.  Jason?  Mike?  If that is the case, I
> don't know why we don't just let X tell us what colors to use.
>
> James Rich
> james@eaerich.com

I use a separate file with colours like this

xt5250*color0:                  black
xt5250*color4:                  #7b91f6
xt5250*color12:                 #7b91f6

and do an xrdb of the file before running the appropriate xt5250 command.
Seems to work okay for me. I do need to tweak cursesterm.c to make blue
blue, rather than cyan, but otherwise it seems fairly easy to get the
colours I like. ISTR some discussion on the list about this a while ago,
and the comment was made (might have been me) about putting something in
in ~/.tn5250rc to handle this (or have I just been dreaming again).

Regards, Martin
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