Hey;

Does anyone know how to make aterm or Eterm read in and
use the standard ~/.Xdefaults Translations resource?  

I have a number of bindings to a variety of function keys; however, 
I can't seem to get [aE]term to use them.  

Unlike the xterm man page, [aE]term don't mention the Translations
resource, so I'm assuming it's not currently possible.

Does anyone know different?

Thanks for your time.

Doug O'Leary


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Doug O'Leary <dkoleary@olearycomputers.com> wrote:
> Hey;

> Does anyone know how to make aterm or Eterm read in and
> use the standard ~/.Xdefaults Translations resource?  

use xterm

(rxvt/... read a small subset of the X defaults file using some hardcoded
logic - translations requires a bit more work than a couple of sscanf's).

> I have a number of bindings to a variety of function keys; however, 
> I can't seem to get [aE]term to use them.  

> Unlike the xterm man page, [aE]term don't mention the Translations
> resource, so I'm assuming it's not currently possible.

that's true.

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On comp.os.linux.misc, in
<slrndhrb1p.pfk.dkoleary@linux.attbi.com>, "Doug O'Leary" wrote:

> Hey;
>
> Does anyone know how to make aterm or Eterm read in and use the
> standard ~/.Xdefaults Translations resource?
>
> I have a number of bindings to a variety of function keys;     
> however, I can't seem to get [aE]term to use them.             
>
> Unlike the xterm man page, [aE]term don't mention the
> Translations resource, so I'm assuming it's not currently
> possible.
>
> Does anyone know different?

Wish I could help you, Doug, but aterm is pretty basic, which is
why I use it. I live in x-terminal-emulators and I love aterms
because there no trace of them on the screen when you use these
commandline options:

aterm -title "$1" -fn\
"-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-\
75-c-50-iso646.1991-irv" -geometry 109X45+0+0 \
-bg white -sl 250 +sb

(the title is picked up by my window manager, not displayed
by ater)

That's all it needs to do, for me. Just emulate a terminal with
black on white and a nice font.

If you want more, try an xterm. I see that its maintainer,
Thomas Dickey, has dropped by, so you are in luck.

AC

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