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From: ekberg@asl.dl.nec.COM (Tom Ekberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xterm and function keys
Message-ID: <9102222100.AA00746@aslss01.asl.dl.nec.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 21:00:29 GMT
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I'm sure this question has been asked before, but I'll go ahead and ask again.
This question doesn't appear in the FAQ list.

I would like to have the function keys F1-F12 on my NCD X terminal output
strings when I'm in an xterm window.  I looked at the `example' in the xterm
man page for vt100 translations, but I can't get it to work.  For example, it
looks like function key F19 is to generate the string "continue\r".  What I did
was to put the example into my .Xresources file, changing the function key
names to ones that exist on my NCD, and then I ran xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources.
This appears to have had no effect.  I even entered dbx within xterm but still
I could see no effect of these translations.

Does anyone happen to have a snippit of a .Xresources file which will allow one
to map function keys to strings while inside of an xterm window?  Of course, if
more is needed than just new entries in the .Xresources, I'd like to know that
too.

  -- tom, ekberg@aslss02.asl.dl.nec.com (x3503)