[ale] question about keymapping in xterm HELP!! :) - long email sorry guys!!

[Van Loggins]

I was finally able to solve this problem. The (NOT!!) wonderful tech
support guys over at rand mcnally wanted to charge us per hour to
custom program their program to get it to work right on our system.

I took your advice Michael and this is what I came up with in order to
get it working.

I added this into the shell script that rand mcnally uses to start
their milemaker software.

TERM=xterm
 export TERM

/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 120 = 0 parenright"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 113 = 1 exclam"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 122 = 2 at"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 130 = 3 numbersign"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 115 = 4 dollar"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 123 = 5 percent"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 124 = 6 asciicircum"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 116 = 7 ampersand"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 125 = 8 asterisk"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 133 = 9 parenleft"
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 129 = Return"


doing this enabled the number pad keys to work, and it also got the
keypad return key to work.

after doing some research I determined that our problem had something
to do with how motif maps keys, but the main problem was that rand
mcnally never bothered to verify that their program would work
correctly under Linux when they ported it over.

Hopefully this info will help them to fix their problem when I pass it
along to them.

Have a great day and I hope this info helps anyone who may have
similar problems.

Van





>I'd try using xmodmap to remap the numkeys to the standard numbers.  Notice 
>that right now they put out KP_1 instead of 1.  xmodmap should be able to 
>remap it to send 1, then the program will probably work.
>
>Michael

On Wednesday 21 July 2004 11:24 am, Van Loggins wrote:
> I'm attempting to get a program called Milemaker (made by
> rand mcnally) to run properly when remotely executed
> on one of our NC900 X terminals.
>
> this program is executed remotely from another server by
> using this command which is set up as a menu entry in
> the motif window manager we use on our terminals.
>
> here is the command
>
> rsh mercury /usr/bin/X11/xterm -cr red -bg MidnightBlue -fg
> snow -display $DISPLAY -title MileMaker -n MilerMaker -e
> /usr/micro/g18/exe/startup.sh
>
> the startup.sh file sets the terminal environment to xterm
> and then starts the milemaker program
>
>
>
> Here is my problem, I'm trying to get the number pad to work
> properly. we use a .xmodmap file that maps the key codes to
> the correct keys on our terminals.
>
>
> when the command xmodmap -pke is executed I get these
> results
>
> keycode   8 =
> keycode   9 =
> keycode  10 =
> keycode  11 =
> keycode  12 =
> keycode  13 =
> keycode  14 =
> keycode  15 = F1
> keycode  16 = Escape
> keycode  17 =
> keycode  18 =
> keycode  19 =
> keycode  20 =
> keycode  21 = Tab
> keycode  22 = grave asciitilde
> keycode  23 = F2
> keycode  24 =
> keycode  25 = Control_L
> keycode  26 = Shift_L
> keycode  27 = backslash bar
> keycode  28 = Caps_Lock
> keycode  29 = Q
> keycode  30 = 1 exclam
> keycode  31 = F3
> keycode  32 =
> keycode  33 = Alt_L
> keycode  34 = Z
> keycode  35 = S
> keycode  36 = A
> keycode  37 = W
> keycode  38 = 2 at
> keycode  39 = F4
> keycode  40 =
> keycode  41 = C
> keycode  42 = X
> keycode  43 = D
> keycode  44 = E
> keycode  45 = 4 dollar
> keycode  46 = 3 numbersign
> keycode  47 = F5
> keycode  48 =
> keycode  49 = space
> keycode  50 = V
> keycode  51 = F
> keycode  52 = T
> keycode  53 = R
> keycode  54 = 5 percent
> keycode  55 = F6
> keycode  56 =
> keycode  57 = N
> keycode  58 = B
> keycode  59 = H
> keycode  60 = G
> keycode  61 = Y
> keycode  62 = 6 asciicircum
> keycode  63 = F7
> keycode  64 =
> keycode  65 = Alt_R
> keycode  66 = M
> keycode  67 = J
> keycode  68 = U
> keycode  69 = 7 ampersand
> keycode  70 = 8 asterisk
> keycode  71 = F8
> keycode  72 =
> keycode  73 = comma less
> keycode  74 = K
> keycode  75 = I
> keycode  76 = O
> keycode  77 = 0 parenright
> keycode  78 = 9 parenleft
> keycode  79 = F9
> keycode  80 =
> keycode  81 = period greater
> keycode  82 = slash question
> keycode  83 = L
> keycode  84 = semicolon colon
> keycode  85 = P
> keycode  86 = minus underscore
> keycode  87 = F10
> keycode  88 =
> keycode  89 =
> keycode  90 = apostrophe quotedbl
> keycode  91 = backslash bar
> keycode  92 = bracketleft braceleft
> keycode  93 = equal plus
> keycode  94 = F11
> keycode  95 = Print Linefeed
> keycode  96 = Control_R
> keycode  97 = Shift_R
> keycode  98 = Return
> keycode  99 = bracketright braceright
> keycode 100 = backslash bar
> keycode 101 = backslash bar
> keycode 102 = F12
> keycode 103 = Cancel
> keycode 104 = Down
> keycode 105 = Left
> keycode 106 = Pause 0x1000ff17
> keycode 107 = Up
> keycode 108 = Delete
> keycode 109 = End
> keycode 110 = BackSpace
> keycode 111 = Insert
> keycode 112 =
> keycode 113 = KP_1
> keycode 114 = Right
> keycode 115 = KP_4
> keycode 116 = KP_7
> keycode 117 = Next
> keycode 118 = Home
> keycode 119 = Prior
> keycode 120 = KP_0
> keycode 121 = KP_Decimal Delete
> keycode 122 = KP_2
> keycode 123 = KP_5
> keycode 124 = KP_6
> keycode 125 = KP_8
> keycode 126 = Num_Lock
> keycode 127 = KP_Divide
> keycode 128 =
> keycode 129 = KP_Enter
> keycode 130 = KP_3
> keycode 131 =
> keycode 132 = KP_Add
> keycode 133 = KP_9
> keycode 134 = KP_Multiply
> keycode 135 =
> keycode 136 =
> keycode 137 =
> keycode 138 =
> keycode 139 =
> keycode 140 = KP_Subtract
> keycode 141 =
> keycode 142 =
> keycode 143 =
> keycode 144 =
> keycode 145 =
> keycode 146 =
> keycode 147 = Meta_L
> keycode 148 = Meta_R
> keycode 149 = Menu
> keycode 150 =
> keycode 151 =
> keycode 152 =
> keycode 153 =
> keycode 154 =
> keycode 155 =
> keycode 156 =
> keycode 157 =
> keycode 158 =
> keycode 159 =
> keycode 160 =
> keycode 161 =
> keycode 162 =
> keycode 163 =
> keycode 164 =
> keycode 165 =
> keycode 166 =
> keycode 167 =
> keycode 168 =
> keycode 169 =
> keycode 170 =
> keycode 171 =
> keycode 172 =
> keycode 173 =
> keycode 174 =
> keycode 175 =
> keycode 176 =
> keycode 177 =
> keycode 178 =
> keycode 179 =
> keycode 180 =
> keycode 181 =
> keycode 182 =
> keycode 183 =
> keycode 184 =
> keycode 185 =
> keycode 186 =
> keycode 187 =
> keycode 188 =
> keycode 189 =
> keycode 190 =
> keycode 191 =
> keycode 192 =
> keycode 193 =
> keycode 194 =
> keycode 195 =
> keycode 196 =
> keycode 197 =
> keycode 198 =
> keycode 199 =
> keycode 200 =
> keycode 201 =
> keycode 202 =
> keycode 203 =
> keycode 204 =
> keycode 205 =
> keycode 206 =
> keycode 207 =
> keycode 208 =
> keycode 209 =
> keycode 210 =
> keycode 211 =
> keycode 212 =
> keycode 213 =
> keycode 214 =
> keycode 215 =
> keycode 216 =
> keycode 217 =
> keycode 218 =
> keycode 219 =
> keycode 220 =
> keycode 221 =
> keycode 222 =
> keycode 223 =
> keycode 224 =
> keycode 225 =
> keycode 226 =
> keycode 227 =
> keycode 228 =
> keycode 229 =
> keycode 230 =
> keycode 231 =
> keycode 232 =
> keycode 233 =
> keycode 234 =
> keycode 235 =
> keycode 236 =
> keycode 237 =
> keycode 238 =
> keycode 239 =
> keycode 240 =
> keycode 241 =
> keycode 242 =
> keycode 243 =
> keycode 244 =
> keycode 245 =
> keycode 246 =
> keycode 247 = Break
> keycode 248 =
> keycode 249 =
> keycode 250 =
> keycode 251 =
> keycode 252 =
> keycode 253 =
> keycode 254 =
>
> when I press the numbers on the numerical keypad in a xterm
> session  they all display correctly, but don't work when
> running the milemaker program
>
>
> I'm hoping that someone else here has had similar problems
> in the past, I sure could use some help.
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> Van
>
> P.S. I have called the tech support guys at rand mcnally,
> they are supposed to call me back. If they are able to help
> out I'll post their instructions to the list in case anyone
> needs them too.
-- 
Van Loggins
"Linux Geek In Training"
vanloggins at gmail.com


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