Re: How to remap keyboard

To add to my last message...

If you need to use per-user changes (i.e. not everyone on the system uses
the same keyboard mappings) then probably the ~/.Xdefaults file is the
best way.

I think what you may be doing wrong is that you're not including
everything that belongs in the file.

It's important to understand that .Xdefaults is not part of TN5250.  It's
part of X11!  You can use it for a LOT of different things, keyboard
mapping in tn5250 is just one of many.

Here is a very simple ~/.Xdefaults file that just changes the Return
and Right Control keys:

xt5250*VT100.Translations: #override\n\
        <Key>Control_R: string("\n") \n\
        <Key>Return: string("\030")

note that the \n\ at the end of each line is a "continuation" thing... it
tells X11 that the following line is part of the same configuration set...

So, if you had settings for multiple programs, it might look like this:

xt5250*VT100.Translations: #override\n\
        <Key>Control_R: string("\n") \n\
        <Key>Return: string("\030")

vi*VT100.Translations: #override\n\
        <Key>KP_Enter: string("\n") \n\
        <Key>Insert: string("i")

xterm*VT100.Translations: #override\n\
        <Key>F9: string("\033OA")

Maybe that'll help...


On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Scott Klement wrote:
>
> Ignore the whole ".Xdefaults" and ".Xresources" idea.  Instead, make
> your changes in /usr/local/share/tn5250/XTerm  (it might be installed
> somewhere else on your system, tho... you might need to do something
> like "find / | grep tn5250/XTerm" to find it.
> (and make sure you capitalize the X & T in XTerm)
>
> There are already keyboard mappings set up in that file, so you'll
> be able to see what needs to be done a little bit better.
>
> This only works when using the xterm version of tn5250 (xt5250).  For
> other versions, you need to the keyboard mapping differently.
>