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From: barry@ncd.COM (Barry Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xterm and function keys
Message-ID: <9102282033.AA28669@bryant.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 20:33:41 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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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)


Here is an example of a string assignment that works....

Put this in the .Xdefaults file


*VT100.Translations: #override Shift<Key>F1: string("shift") \n\
                                    <Key>F1: string("F1")