Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:00:43 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: rdmurphy@vt.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: application specific key mappings? Message-ID: <15311.17147.548194.736316@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15311.14519.692134.918410@localhost.econ.vt.edu> References: <98455565@toto.iv> <15311.11218.424718.280378@guru.mired.org> <15311.14519.692134.918410@localhost.econ.vt.edu>
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Russell D. Murphy Jr. <rdmurphy@vt.edu> types: > According to Mike Meyer (October 18, 2001): > | If it's an X application, you might check to see if there are > | resources that control what you want. That's the easiest method. > It comes in two flavors: a console version and an X application. The > X application is the one I need to adjust. However, there are no > resource files and according to the vendor, the mappings are > hardcoded. In which case, the other recourse is a debugger and a binary editor. Of course, you might want to play with it with appres and editres before doing that. > | If you're running it in an xterm, you can remap the keys in the > | xterm. If that screws up everything else, xterm has an option to > | change the resource class from XTerm to something else, and you can > | remap the keys for *that* resource class, then run your application in > | an xterm started that way. > Any chance that the xterm remappings are inherited by applications > started *from* the xterm? That would be convenient. Nope. That just controls how xterm deals with the keystrokes. If xterm doesn't get them, nothing else will work. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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