Re: [LINUX5250] xt5250, x5250, fonts

[Sean Porterfield <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Rich wrote:
> > Using the XTerm to map ¢ to a key put the sign on the screen and added 
> > another character after it.)
>
>
> Can you please post what you added to XTerm for this?

        <Key>bracketleft: string("¢") \n\

> x5250 should quite happily print any character in the font.  But you are 
> right, the hard part is the fact that there is no cent key.  A mapping 
> can be set up for it, though right now that requires some coding.  Tell 
> me what mapping you would like and I'll add it for you.

You correctly read what I meant :)  In iSeries Access, I mapped it on 
the left square bracket, since I almost never use that character.  I 
then mapped Alt-[ to be [ just in case I needed it.  I'm not really 
picky, though.  If I can make the character, I can do my job.

> > The font will change if I specify -font in xt5250 but not from font_80 
> > in .tn5250rc.
>
>
> xt5250 or x5250?  I don't think xt5250 has a -font option.

That comment was directed only toward xt5250.

> Application defaults for x5250 are found in
> /usr/local/share/x5250/X5250 or may be placed in ~/.Xdefaults.  The
>  X5250 file list all the resources that can be customized.  You can
>  also run 'x5250 --help' to get a list of command line options.

Aha!  The x5250*pastecursor option helps me (though it is backwards from 
what I expected.)  I found that if I copy within x5250, I can paste 
outside it.  If I copy outside, I can paste within (though it was 
pasting wherever I had the cursor which really messed up my code!)  I 
still cannot highlight in x5250 and paste back into x5250.

I should be able to just edit key.c to do things the way I like them. 
See the following that I added to my XTerm file:

        <Key>Menu: string("\022") \n\
        Shift<Key>Escape: string("\003") \n\
        <Key>End: string("\033\012") \n\
        <Key>Control_R: string("\015") \n\
        <Key>Return: string("\013") \n\
        <Key>KP_Enter: string("\013") \n\

This was already in XTerm, but doesn't work in x5250:
        <Key>Control_L: string("\022") \n\

Thanks!