[Info-vax] VMS on remote desktops

[hb]

On Nov 1, 8:40 pm, "FredK" <fred.nos... at dec.com> wrote:
> For years, as needed (and not often) - I run DECwindows applications to a PC
> X11 emulator.  I telnet to VMS from my PC.  But for the most part - I still
> use DECwindows with local graphics for VMS development - after all I am a
> VMS engineer :-).

For years, I did all my work in a couple of DECterms on a DPW600au
running VMS with DECwindows (CDE desktop) on a low-end graphics
adapter. For all the fancy stuff I used Mozilla on that workstation:
mails and web based access to MS applications or files. In case that
didn't work - for example for virtual classrooms - I ran Linux on a
notebook with the display redirected to the X11 server on the
workstation so that I still had a single keyboard/mouse/monitor work
environment.

When I worked from home I used Linux (Debian/Lenny) and a company
provided VPN to telnet to the VMS workstation or other VMS systems.
Almost always I just needed a terminal, occasionally I started an
application with a GUI, but I never ran a remote desktop.

I used XTerm(232) with
        xterm*rightScrollBar: True
        xterm.VT100.geometry: 80x36
        xterm.VT100.c132: True
        xterm.VT100.cursorBlink: True
        xterm.VT100.scrollBar: True

Using the middle mouse button for scrolling was different, but having
the scroll bar on the right side looked somehow more familiar.

For the keypad I changed the key mapping with xmodmap and
        keycode 0x43 =  KP_F1
        keycode 0x4D =  KP_F1
        keycode 0x70 =  KP_F2
        keycode 0x44 =  KP_F2
        keycode 0x3F =  KP_F3
        keycode 0x45 =  KP_F3
        keycode 0x56 =  KP_Subtract
        keycode 0x52 =  KP_F4
        keycode 0x46 =  KP_F4
        keycode 0x4F =  KP_7            KP_7
KP_7            KP_7
        keycode 0x50 =  KP_8            KP_8
KP_8            KP_8
        keycode 0x51 =  KP_9            KP_9
KP_9            KP_9
        keycode 0x53 =  KP_4            KP_4
KP_4            KP_4
        keycode 0x54 =  KP_5            KP_5
KP_5            KP_5
        keycode 0x55 =  KP_6            KP_6
KP_6            KP_6
        keycode 0x57 =  KP_1            KP_1
KP_1            KP_1
        keycode 0x58 =  KP_2            KP_2
KP_2            KP_2
        keycode 0x59 =  KP_3            KP_3
KP_3            KP_3
        keycode 0x6C =  KP_Enter
        keycode 0x5A =  KP_0            KP_0
KP_0            KP_0
        keycode 0x5B =  KP_Decimal      KP_Decimal
KP_Decimal      KP_Decimal

That made working with TPU/EVE etc. easy. However, for Notes I missed
the comma key on the PC keypad.

(And that key mapping works well with the jed editor on Linux in EDT
mode).

When I used the Linux X11 server to create a DECterm (with
CREATE/TERM/DETACHED/NOLOGGED) or to run an application with a GU,
then
I used a VMS/DECwindows font server.

If needed, I copied files with ftp, I rarely used an NFS or sshfs
client to
access remote directories - mostly because of missing privileges to
export the
directories on other systems and because of incompatibilites or setup
problems.