fox@skink.ino.ucar.edu (Dan Fox) (02/20/90)
The SUN type 4 keyboard has 12 function keys at the top and 21 function keys to the right of the keyboard, but on SPARCstations only F1-F9 and R1-R15 are defined as function keys. In other words the type 4 keyboard acts exactly like a type 3 keyboard. This is a problem when using SUN's TE100 product for VT100 emulation under SUNVIEW for example. The keypad on the type 4 keyboard is very similar to a VT100 keypad, but 6 of the keypad keys are effectively none functioning. It looks like a quick fix for this problem would be to duplicate F1-F9 on F10-F12 and the 6 unallocated keypad keys. Can the keys be remapped just by modifying the keymap tables from /usr/lib/keymaps? Are there any tools available to assist in generating new keymaps, or to print keymap files in a readable format? On the 386i SUN has added nine new named function keys, F10-F12 and B1-B6, associated with the nine new keys. Maybe they will do the same on SPARCstations eventually.