[vox-tech] Unbuntu and VMSterm script

[David Spencer]

Thanks Nick. I've looked into it more this morning. I've found that by using the keyboard
preference tool I can reproduce the problem there as well. I've posted a note on the
Ubuntu support website. The whole keypad is fouled up. I've even plugged in a spare
apple USB keyboard and got the same results. Perhaps it's something unique to my
Dell mini-tower(?). Seems odd when things worked just fine before the latest update.


-- Dave Spencer, PageWeavers

On Mar 21, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Nick Schmalenberger wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 03:29:44PM -0700, David Spencer, Internet Handyman wrote:
>> Guys, I've been slowly weaning my way away from my OpenVMS addiction
>> by using various tools on Ubuntu. Specifically there's a nifty little
>> key-redefinition script that defines keypad keys and such for the
>> terminal so it emulates (mostly) a VT100. (Try a google search for
>> vmsterm.)
>> 
>> Anyway, after a recent update to unbuntu, it's now broken. I'm not
>> very happy. Any tips on what might have changed that broke the script?
>> Yeah, I know that none of your are familiar with it of course. But
>> how do I go about finding out what changed? I'd really like to think
>> that it's some setting or something that I can flip to get the old
>> behavior back...
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
> Well, xev will tell you what key codes are really being pressed
> and xmodmap can print out all the current mappings. Thats all I
> can think of though without knowing how the script does its
> remapping. I only have such experience with xmodmap and I know it
> can be tricky.
> Nick Schmalenberger
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