Xming key map for EVE application keypad

[K Fam]

I've got Xming X windows running via SSH using Teraterm 4.6 to OpenVMS 7.3-2
However the TPU editor session cannot seem to use the EVE application keypad in Xming X-windows terminal even when a normal Teraterm session had no problems (the setup for the EVE key pad is defined in the sys$login area)

Any idea of how this can be resolved ?
There does not seem to be a problem with Kea-X.

[John Gillings]

Hi Kim,

Is the emulator keypad defined to use VT220 keys by position or by name? I'm not familiar with Teraterm, but I'd expect it must have a way to configure the keyboard to be "true LK" layout vs "PC" layout.

I've attached a small program which echos the key sequences seen at your processs. Compare working and non-working connections, it may give a clue as to what's happening.

MACRO, LINK and RUN. Press keys to see the escape sequences. control characters are prefixed with "^", high characters with "~". End with ^Z

[Jeffrey Goodwin · Accepted solution]

Check out the excellent response by Bojan Nemec in this thread:

https://community.hpe.com/t5/Hardware/What-client-instead-of-old-VT/m-p/3765186

I only had to make minor changes to the xkb files to get it to work for me.

I start xming as so:

xming -multiwindow -ac -xkblayout us_vms -clipboard

Note: Xming reasserts the num-lock and a few other keys when switching between xming and PC applications. For VMS, this makes it look like PF1 is being pressed everytime the windows are changed. I ended up rebuilding xming after removing the code that did the reasserting. I also has to roll in quite a few clipboard patches to get the copy and paste to work reliably.

-Jeff

[Verne Britton]

Dear Jeff,

is your enhanced xming and your working xkb file available for others ??


Verne

[K Fam]

Thanks Jeff,
Your hint was invaluable ! The structure of Xming under XP was little different and I only had to make a little change to
us_vms configuration
The contents:
// Setup the pc keyboard to looks like an LK keyboard
default
partial alphanumeric_keys modifier_keys
xkb_symbols "us_vms" {
include "us(basic)"
include "vms(vms)"
};
because of the slightly difference in the directory structure.

Now, in Xming DECterm session, the keys behave as expected in EVE editor.

Many thanks Jeff,

Kim Fam

[Jeffrey Goodwin]

Verne,

I can supply the files, but I cannot attach the zip file due to it's size (2MB).

-Jeff

[Dennis Handly]

The updated URL:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Hardware/What-client-instead-of-old-VT/m-p/3765186