Re: [LINUX5250] Linux and as400 experiences

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Sean Porterfield wrote:

> > Also, unless you use 5250 menus or scrollbars, try running with +enhanced 
> > in your .tn5250rc - the results are much nicer.  With the latest releases 
> > of tn5250 and x5250 everything should work with the above exceptions. Here 
> > are some screenshots of enhanced mode:
>
> I don't think we have anything in our environment that would use enhanced 
> mode (as I understand it.)  The window borders do look much better, so I've 
> added +enhanced to my tn5250rc.

Enhanced mode means the iSeries sends a CREATE WINDOW command instead of 
just sending window border attributes as part of the regular screen data. 
tn5250/x5250 now understands this command and creates a real X11 window. 
That's why they look better (imo).  Enhanced mode also adds other things 
like cursor progression, continued fields, and word wrap.

> I also remembered that I was still using x5250-0.4.6, so I got 0.4.8 today.
>
> What happened to the colors?  My normal green on black has become almost lime 
> green on paste grey.  I don't see any difference in my X5250 file, and 
> running `make install` from my 0.4.8 directory fixes the colors.

'make install' will put a new X5250 resource file in 
/usr/local/share/x5250 (or whatever you passed to --prefix in configure). 
But the colors there are very standard.  I think I changed the heirarchy 
of preferences since 0.4.6 and maybe I screwed up (I had to for some 
desktop systems like gnome).  If x5250 isn't starting up with the 
resources you expect, start it with the --debug-resources option.  This 
will cause it to print to stdout where it is finding its resources and 
which resources are set.

> Drat, I just realized I have to go fix my keymapping too :(

Hopefully keymapping isn't too far away...

James Rich

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