Re: Converting from console-tools style keymap to console-setup xkb style keymap

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On 8-Mar-08, at 12:32 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:15:12AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote:

Hi All,

The tn5250 package has an add on keymap us5250.map that defines F21
thru F24, and a few other odds and ends, on the console keyboard.

I'm trying to use this keymap on gutsy and etch. I gather both of
them have converted to the console-tools package, which somehow uses
the X keymaps on the console.
I'm trying to figure out how to add my keymap additions to those
keymaps and so far I'm lost in a sea of documentation :-)

So, assuming I'm using a standard pc 104 us qwerty keyboard, how do
I add these entries to an X style keymap?

And no, the tn5250 project list doesn't know - they've mostly moved
on from using the console to X....

I don't know tn5250, but at least x3270 does its own keymapping. IIRC
c3270 used the same mappings. So try doing the mapping at the
application level.

I recall that the x3270 man page had a comprehensive and yet difficult
to understand description of that mapping.


x5250 and xt5250 both work fine... in X :-(
Unfortunately they don't work on a console (sidebar - 'in' a console?)

It seems like the current maintainers are focused on the X versions and aren't familiar with the linux console, so there's not much help there unfortunately.

Brian
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