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From: rob@spot.Colorado.EDU (Rob Cuthbertson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: vt100 fkeys in Xterm
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Date: 24 May 91 21:01:08 GMT
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I also face the problem of getting vt100 PFkeys while under X, but I'm 
looking for a more general solution than using Xdefaults translation tables 
or xmodmap.  I move between several different X workstations, including
Sun and HP workstations, NCD Xterminals, and Macs running X.  What I'd like
is a small application that brings up a window with four pushbuttons along
the top, and a normal xterm just below.  Basically a candy-wrapper shell
around an xterm window.  
(the four buttons, of course, would be labeled "PF1" - "PF4" and would
send the correct escape sequences to the xterm)

What is the best way to do this?  Is there an easy way to write an extra 
application that uses the existing xterm or should I look at modifying
the xterm code to make a new copy? (pfxterm?  8)

Alternately, if someone has done something similar to this, (or if someone
would like to...)  I'd be quite happy to go with someone else's work.

--Rob Cuthbertson, rob@spot.Colorado.EDU

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