[Info-vax] VMS on remote desktops

[FredK]

"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote in message 
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> 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.

Actually, I'm looking for exactly your type of environment...  the confusion 
is in client vs server and the fact that the terms tend to be transposed 
when talking about the graphics/desktop environment.  I'm interested in VMS 
systems that are generally headless talking to Linux/Thin clients/Mac's, etc 
that are sitting on your desktop...  and how you interact with the VMS 
systems.  Do you use the native xterm/emulator to command line into VMS, run 
DECterm out to the desktop, other graphical applications.   Keymapping 
issues.  UTF vs MCS/Latin-1.  Motif/Locale issues.  Font issues.  Do you 
primarily work in the environment on your desktop and run occasional VMS 
stuff remotely, or is the desktop primarily used to get to VMS.  Stuff like 
that.