[Info-vax] VMS on remote desktops

[Jeremy Begg]

Hi Fred,

Here's my 2c worth.

I have two desktop environments.  In the office I do 95% of my VMS work 
using my AlphaStation 255 workstation.  The other 5% is on my MacBook Pro 
which has a second screen.  At home I have an iMac.

In the ofice I always fire up X11 on the MacBook and run these two commands 
in the xterm window which X11 creates automatically:

     xset fp+ tcp/VMS:7000
     xhost +

where 'VMS' is the IP address of my local VMS X11 font server (MultiNet).
I then start a couple of PerfMeter windows on my VMS systems with 
DECW$DISPLAY pointing to the MacBook.  I also create a DECterm for running 
some other monitoring software (OperCon).

However I tend to do very little actual *work* in DECterm on the Mac(s) 
because the keyboard mappings are never quite right in EVE.  (I'm going to 
try using Brian's mappings to see if that improves the experience.)

If I need to log into VMS from the Mac(s) I almost always use the Terminal 
application which comes with MacOS X.  I also have a little tool called 
'KeyRemap4MacBook' installed on my MacBook, configured so that various 
function keys and the pageup/pagedown keys generate the right control codes 
for VMS.  The really nice feature of KeyRemap4MacBook is that it will vary 
the keyboard handling according to the current application.  This is 
particularly useful because without it the top row of function keys on the 
MacBook perform various local control actions such as varying the display 
brightness, rather than generating keycodes for Terminal or X11.)

One thing I'd really like to be able to do is to use an LK4xx USB keyboard 
on my Mac.  I have tried it but found that several of the keys appear to be 
complete ignored by MacOS -- they don't generate any action at all in X11 or 
in Terminal.

Regards,

	Jeremy Begg