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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  xterm and function keys
Message-ID: <9102230927.AA00650@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 23 Feb 91 09:27:12 GMT
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> I would like to have the function keys F1-F12 on my NCD X terminal
> output strings when I'm in an xterm window.

So far so good.

> [...example in man page...]  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.

The problem is almost certainly that xterm reads the resources once, at
startup, and ignores changes made thereafter.  Try setting the
resources and starting a new xterm and see if it helps any.

					der Mouse

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