HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 60)

Setting Up the UNIX Workstation
x6530 Run Command and Customizing Options
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To have the characters printed on the keys displayed when you press them, you add
the following lines to the keysym file, assigning the keysyms listed in Table 2-8 to the
ASCII characters from Table 2-9:
[ Shift_L colon
\ Shift_L quotedbl
] Shift_L braceleft
{ semicolon
| quoteright
} bracketleft
Now, for example, when you press the Æ key with the Shift key, the Shift_L colon
keysyms are sent to x6530; however, x6530 interprets these keysyms as the [ character
because of the first of the preceding keymap instructions. Then x6530 searches the
Danish language font file based on the [ character to find the uppercase Æ character to
display on the screen.
Executing the x6530
Run Command
Most, perhaps all, users of x6530 will not have x6530 residing at their workstations;
this is also true for a window manager. The more likely scenario is that x6530 and a
window manager will reside at some other host in the network. A user, however, will
probably want a window manager active at their workstation while they use x6530
and other clients because the window manager provides many useful services.
With x6530 and the window manager residing on a workstation other than their own,
how does a user conveniently issue run commands for these clients from their
workstation? There are three approaches you can use in this situation:
Set up the X server at a user’s workstation to automatically start a window
manager.
Use a Telnet X client built into the user’s X terminal to start a window manager.
Set up xdm to automatically start the X server and a window manager.
Each approach permits the user to run x6530 from the window manager’s menu,
assuming the window manager’s menu can be customized to run user-defined clients.
Each approach is discussed below using mwm as the example window manager and
assumes that mwm resides on the same UNIX workstation as x6530.
Setting Up the UNIX
Workstation
Each of the approaches presented in the previous discussion requires you to do some
preparatory work for each user on the UNIX workstation where x6530 resides. The
steps are as follows:
1. Create an account for each user.
2. Include a path command and UNIX environment DISPLAY variable in each user’s
UNIX .login file.
3. Place resource or class variables for x6530 in a file named .Xdefaults in each user’s
home directory (an .Xdefaults file is optional).