Re: [LINUX5250] keyboard can not work

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not familiar with an "execute" key (I've never seen a keyboard with
an execute key) is that something that Chinese keyboards have, but US
keyboards do not?

The key sequence that I use to sign in, not only in TN5250,  but also in
RUMBA, Client Access and an actual 5250 terminal is:

UserName<TAB>Password<ENTER>

Where <TAB> is the "tab" key, and <ENTER> is the "enter" key.


It sounds like the keyboard you're used to maps the "enter" key to
act as a "Field Exit" key.  And the "right-ctrl" key is mapped to
act as an "enter" key.

I find that keyboard setup to be counter-intuitive, since all of your
other Linux apps will use the "enter" key for "enter", rather than for
field-exit.

I strongly discourage you from changing this in console mode because the
console-mode keyboard map will affect ALL Linux screens, not just TN5250.
In fact, I wouldn't use console mode unless you have to -- keyboard
mapping is not easy in console mode.

However, if you want the right-control key to be enter in xt5250, and
you want the enter key to be field exit, you can change it by editing
/usr/local/share/tn5250/XTerm   (or /usr/share/tn5250, or wherever it is
on your system) and adding these lines:

        <Key>Control_R: string("\012") \n\
        <Key>Return: string("\013") \n\

Which tells the xterm to re-map the "Control_R" (right-control) key to
send octal 12 (enter) and Return key to send octal 13 (Ctrl-K which is
Field Exit)

Good luck!


On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, [gb2312] ÀîÇÉϼ\(Wendy Li\) wrote:
>
> Neither in console mode,nor X window, the keyboard still can work properly.
>
> I run tn5250 in console mode as following:
>
> #tic 5250.terminfo
> #loadkeys us5250.map
> #tn5250 192.168.45.2 (as400 server's ip)
> then the screen is displayed ,and I put in the user name,pressed 'enter'
> key ,but the cursor just ruturn the column,but not go to next
> column;after I put in passwd ,press right 'ctrl' key,it can't work,which
> is 'execute' key?
>
> I am working under turbo linux v6.0, linux kernel is v2.2.13-18,
> keyboard is US pc102,LC_ALL=zh_CN.gbk,but if I change LC_ALL to
> en_US,the keyboard can not work,either?
>