[Info-vax] VMS on remote desktops

[FredK]

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> In article <ian2st$876$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, "FredK" 
> <fred.nospam at dec.com> writes:
>
> I use mosy my Linux laptop and my Mac.  I've done plenty with 'xmodmap' 
> for
> the keycode hacks.  I've worked around most of the problems using the font
> server.  I access the VMS system(s) with 'ssh -X' but I've also toyed with
> using 'xnest'.
>
> As for fonts, the double-high/double-wide terminal fonts always cause 
> issue
> within 'xterm'.  I export $CREATE/TERMINAL for doing debugging and, 
> without
> the font server, some of the line drawing stuff and, I believe, the 
> reverse
> video use in the character-cell debugger cause issue.   I don't really use
> any of the other GUI toys that came with CDE.  A functional terminal is 
> all
> I ask for -- and which I have now with the font server.
>

Thanks.  I suspect a ot of VMS people (like UNIX folks) are still mostly 
command line types.  Care to share your xmodmap tricks?  Do you need to 
switch back and forth between settings to use VMS-style vs UNIX/Mac style 
input?