[Info-vax] VMS on remote desktops

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In article <iangna$fam$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, "FredK" <fred.nospam at dec.com> writes:
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>> In article <ian2st$876$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, "FredK" 
>> <fred.nospam at dec.com> writes:
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>> 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.
>>
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>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?

No.  I have not problem with need to switch back and forth.  I have Linux
on a 17" Toshiba laptop (as one example) that has a full alternate keypad.
Since the keypak is WEENDOZE biased already, its usefulness in Linux does
not mean all that much to me.  However, it does make VMS editing easier as
I can approximate things like the EDT keypad.  Of course, it's crippled in
that it has the stupidly large [+] key where DEC keyboards had [,] and [-]
keys.

!!!!!! [+] = [,]    CTRL-[+] = [-]
keycode 86 = 0xffac            0xffad
!!
keycode 82 = 0xff94
keycode 63 = 0xff93
keycode 106 = 0xff92
keycode 77 = 0xff91
!!
pointer = 3 2 1 4 5 6 7

The pointer is leftie mapping for me.  Others may choose not to do this if
they are no in their "right mind."


On the Mac, I use the Mac full keyboard which has an alternate keypad that
looks like the DEC LK style keyboard's alternate keypad.  I don't need any
.Xmodmap for that.  I'm using iTerm when I'm not launching a DECterminal.
There's a profile section where I have defined the more typical key escape
sequences.  On the Mac, the .Xmodmap file is:

keycode 79 = 0xff91
keycode 89 = 0xff92
keycode 83 = 0xff93
keycode 75 = 0xff94
keycode 77 = 0xffac

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