From: martin@radiogaga.harz.de
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 10:18 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Dxterm displayed on Solaris

Jack Patteeuw (jpatteeu@ford.com) wrote:
> Has anyone fiddled with xmodmap to create an "appropriate" keyboard file
> to use with DECterm when it is being displayed on Solaris/CDE ?

<QUOTE>
From: R. Kevin Oberman
Newsgroups: vmsnet.tpu
Subject: RE: Wanted: EDT/TPU keypad bindings for SUN
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 19:03:29 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Message-ID: <3otjg6$rf@lll-winken.llnl.gov>

larsen@beethoven.sedd.trw.com (Eric Hadley Larsen) writes:
> I have a Sun Sparc on my desktop.  I often remotely create a DECterm
> on my VAX/VMS machine and route the display back to by sun.  This works
> great until I try to edit a file.  I cannot seem to figure out to get
> the EDT style keypad to map correctly for my SUN keyboard.

This can get VERY complex. But I can give you a start. Use xmodmap to remap
your keys to do what you want.

You don't say what type of Sun keyboard you have. I have the Type 4 that
lacks any cursor keys except on the application keypad, so I think it's
about the worst case.

Here is the file I pass to xmodmap in my .xsession file:

keycode 101=KP_0
keycode 119=KP_1
keycode 120=KP_2
keycode 121=KP_3
keycode 98=KP_4
keycode 99=KP_5
keycode 100=KP_6
keycode 75=KP_7
keycode 76=KP_8
keycode 77=KP_9
keycode 28=KP_F1
keycode 29=KP_F2
keycode 30=KP_F3
keycode 57=KP_Decimal
keycode 52=Prior
keycode 53=Next
keycode 54=Find
keycode 105=KP_F4
keycode 78=KP_Subtract
keycode 8=Left
keycode 10=Right
keycode 32=Up
keycode 33=Down
keycode 132=KP_Separator
keycode 58=Menu
keycode 97=KP_Enter

This maps the applications keypad to do the "normal things, with the extra
keys in the second row from the top mapped to prior, next, and find. The
top 4 "L" keys are mapped to left, right, up, and down. L6 is the "DO" key.

In addition, there are odd Motif related problems with several keys that may
be taken care of with an X resource in .Xdefaults:

*defaultVirtualBindings:\
 osfCancel      :               <Key>F11        \n\
 osfLeft        :               <Key>Left       \n\
 osfUp          :               <Key>Up         \n\
 osfRight       :               <Key>Right      \n\
 osfDown        :               <Key>Down       \n\
 osfEndLine     :Alt            <Key>Right      \n\
 osfBeginLine   :Alt            <Key>Left       \n\
 osfPageUp      :               <Key>Prior      \n\
 osfPageDown    :               <Key>Next       \n\
 osfDelete      :Shift          <Key>Delete     \n\
 osfUndo        :Alt            <Key>Delete     \n\
 osfBackSpace   :               <Key>Delete     \n\
 osfAddMode     :Shift          <Key>F8         \n\
 osfHelp        :               <Key>Help       \n\
 osfMenu        :               <Key>F4         \n\
 osfMenuBar     :               <Key>F10        \n\
 osfSelect      :               <Key>Select     \n\
 osfActivate    :               <Key>KP_Enter   \n\
 osfCopy        :Shift          <Key>DRemove    \n\
 osfCut         :               <Key>DRemove    \n\
 osfPaste       :               <Key>Insert

Note that this must be EXACTLY right or nothing will work, so you might want
to cut and paste it.

now if I could just come up with a Type 5 keyboard I could eliminate most of
this and go faster because I'd have the keys where they belong.
</QUOTE>

Hope it helps,
  Martin
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