[Info-vax] VMS on remote desktops

[JF Mezei]

FredK wrote:

> 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?

If I read your initial post correctly, you are seeking input from people
using a VMS X terminal, and how they are setting it up to receive
connections form remote X clients running Mac, Linux etc.

If so, this does not apply to me. My remaining 2 VMS hosts are headless,
 and target any X displays to my Mac instead of the other way around.

with an xset to to alpha for font serving,  the VAX is able to create a
decterm on my Mac and display all fancy character attributes (including
double height/double width).

I have to review my xmodmap now because I had to switch to a wireless
mouse which only has 2 buttons. (Apples wired mouse had 4 buttons nd was
using the 4th button as "paste" within X.

I use RSH on the Mac to run a command precude on the VMS boxes to
CREATE/TERM/DETACHED/NOLOGGED on the Mac. (the VMS boxes create an
executive WSA device that is persistent and can be reused for those).

I don't run any VMS session manager. DECterm gets me command line, and I
can invoke GUI apps from command line if needed.