[Info-vax] Alpha Community licenes.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-09-21, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2022-09-20 20:45, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> BTW, you do need a proper keyboard mapping script unfortunately, but
>> I find xterm to be quite usable when talking to VMS systems and when
>> using the application keypad mode generally.
>
> I agree in principle, but am constantly confused about people saying 
> they need to do all kind of keyboard mapping scripts with xterm.
>
> I've been using xterm for over 30 years, and I've never had to do that, 
> and been using it against VMS and RSX all the time, and *all* keys work 
> as you would expect. Both on old sparc stations, DECstations as well as 
> my MacBook Pro's that I use these days. Haven't even changed anything in 
> my configuration for the last 20 years or so. Same stuff still works the 
> same way across the different platforms.
>

PF1 to PF4 mapping. Are they on F1 to F4 or are they on the top row of
the numeric keypad ?

Do you use application keypad mode ?

Do you use the editing keys between the main keyboard and the numeric keypad?

I had problems with all of these under Linux until I used a keyboard mapping
script and I have continued to use the same setup over the years.

Simon.

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