Re: Key Mapping for tn5250 when launched from bash

On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Jeff Harris wrote:

I'm new to this list and tn5250. I've installed tn5250 and it works great
with one exception.

When I run xt5250 from X11/Gnome the emulators keys behave as expected.
[SHIFT] + [F12] = F24, but when I run tn5250 from a bash shell when I press
the same keys I get no response as if the F24 key doesn't exist.

I've searched the mailing list archives but was unable to find a clear
answer. Most of the solutions involved changing .Xdefaults or XTerm
settings. These solutions wont help when launching tn5250 in a non X11
environment.

Are you running X11 or strictly the linux console? If the latter, there is a console map file called us5250.map included in the tn5250 distribution which you can load using the "loadkeys" command. There a short paragraph describing this in the tn5250 HOWTO (http://www.chowhouse.com/~james/tn5250-HOWTO.pdf) on page 9.

James Rich

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