Re: xt5250 TINY window

Hmmm...  I don't have an X11 system in front of me to test, but I think 
it's shift-right-click in the xt5250 window?  Or maybe it's 
ctrl-right-click?  (or ctrl-left click?  Something like that...  you'll 
figure it out with a few combinations)

Anyway, you'll get a screen where you can choose between different sizes 
(big, medium, small, tiny) and you can pick a larger one.

Alternately, you can change the font by specifying the font_80 or 
font_132 keywords in your .tn5250rc file.

Regarding keyboard mapping...   getting terminal-based keyboard mapping 
to work is not trivial, and varies from system to system and terminal to 
terminal. I'm not familiar with Debian, and am not in a good position to 
help you with that.

But, basically, you need to set up your terminal to send unique escape 
sequences for all of the keys.  I don't know how Debian deals with this, 
but there's an example us5250.map and uk5250.map files in the Linux 
directory of the distro that should give you a starting point. On other 
Linux systems, you use loadkeys to load the map.

Secondly, your termcap/terminfo (whichever you use) must understand the 
escape sequences you're sending.  It must recognize that the sequence 
from loadkeys results in a particular function key (or whatever) being 
pressed. That's how the system recognizes your function key.  If the 
system recognizes them, tn5250 should too.

It gets more tricky when you don't use the console as your terminal, but 
instead use a terminal program or X11 terminal program, since these 
don't always have an equivalent to loadkeys, and since there are so many 
of them, it's hard to find people with experience using them.

Ultimately, it might be easier to just use xt5250 (which always uses 
xterm as it's terminal, and knows how to set up the keyboard for it) or 
to use x5250 (which doesn't use the curses terminal input, but reads the 
keyboard scan codes directly.)

Good luck

On 10/1/2010 3:53 PM, John Aldrich wrote:
> I thought I knew how to fix this, but obviously I don't, since I'm
> emailing here... :-)
>
> I have a Debian Lenny box that I'm trying to use for an AS/400
> terminal using TN5250/xt5250. Unfortunately, neither one is usable
> right now. The TN5250 won't work with the Function keys and xt5250
> just gives me a SMALL window with even smaller text.
>
> I remember something about changing the font, but I don't recall how
> to do that. Could someone post an example and instructions on how to
> do that, or point me to how? I *did* Google, but sometimes my
> Google-Fu stinks. :-(
>
> Thanks...
>

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