lamson@el1.crd.ge.com (scott h lamson) (12/28/90)
Can anyone tell me how to set the arrow function keys on a sun4
keyboard to control-f, c-b, c-n, and c-p? I can reset all the keys
except the four arrow keys(R8, R10, R12, R14), that i want to use
for the korn shell emacs editing mode. These keys seem to be
translated somewhere to esc-[A, etc before xterm sees them. I am
running sunOS 4.0, openwindows 2.0, and the mwm window manager. I use
xterm as a terminal emulator.
thanks for any help you can provide...
scott
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General Electric Corporate Research and Developmentmouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (12/30/90)
> Can anyone tell me how to set the arrow function keys on a sun4 > keyboard to control-f, c-b, c-n, and c-p? This is not possible in general. It can be done for xterm with the Translations resource, but that does not affect other clients. > I can reset all the keys except the four arrow keys(R8, R10, R12, > R14), that i want to use for the korn shell emacs editing mode. > These keys seem to be translated somewhere to esc-[A, etc before > xterm sees them. This is definitely not the problem, or if it is your server is doing something truly strange and wonderful; xterm should just be getting key-down and key-up events just as for any other key.... You don't say how you're trying to "reset" keys. If you've managed to get control characters on other keys, you clearly aren't using xmodmap, so I would guess you're using the Translations resource. In that case, the problem that comes to mind as most likely is that you're trying to set the translation for R8, R10, R12, or R14 instead of Up, Left, Right, or Down. If this is the problem, you can either change your Translations resource to use the Up/Left/Right/Down names (this is the change I would prefer) or you can use xmodmap to remap those buttons to the R8/R10/R12/R14 keysyms, and then reset the translations for R8/etc. In general, if something odd is happening with keys, use xev to check to make sure that the keycodes and/or keysyms (as appropriate) that you're using are really the ones you want to use.... (Just fire up xev and type at it; it will print out keycode values and keysym names for the keys you type.) der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu