Re: Key Mapping for tn5250 when launched from bash
James Rich <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250 |
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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 if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond when you're done reading them :) - Paul Davis on ardour-dev -- This is the Linux 5250 Development Project (LINUX5250) mailing list To post a message email: LINUX5250-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/linux5250 or email: LINUX5250-request-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250.