I hope someone has a few minutes to address some keyboard
questions. I'm pretty dumb about keyboads.
I am running on a pretty much standard Debian Linux (Knoppix).
I want to run 5250 sessions in the same X session with browser
mail open office console sessions, in otherwords everything.
So:
1. My understanding is that if I leave .Xdefaults alone the other
apps will be unaffected by, for instance, my mapping
Enter to Field Exit. If I do that mapping in /usr/share/tn5250/XTerm,
it will take care of the 5250 sessions and not affect anything else. ??
2. My (barely) understanding is that the default(?) file
...../i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz
maps scancodes to 'names' like Escape or KP_ADD.
then a filter file like XTerm can use those 'names' to map to ascii
sequences. ??
If that is correct, what does the mapping in lieu of XTerm?
and what happens to all the keys which XTerm doesn't map?
Is XTerm an override of a broader mapping? Pardon my ignorance.
3. The next step in the process would be what is sent to the AS400.
As far as data, should I just assume that if the proper CodePage is
selected, the correct ascii/ebcdic and ebcdic/ascii translation will
occur?
I am aware for instance there are subtle differences between
Spanish(Spain) and Spanish Speaking(Mexico). Not that that particular
one affects me.
4. Back to scancodes.
There are keys which need to act differently. Like Right control
and Left control. If I use us5250.map (which looks like a more thorough
mapping than us.kmap.gz. Would I do a loadkeys?
Then if I map Right Control to 5250 Enter (which is what my users are used
to)
would other apps lose that a ctrl key? Again pardon my ignorance.
Thanks.
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