RE: [LINUX5250] HOWTO keymap seperate users

["Sean Porterfield" <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Scott on this.  But let's not fall into the trap of thinking
"background, foreground, cursor" - remember that we're dealing with color
terminals that can have different colored text in different places on the
screen.  Saying "I want red to be displayed as yellow" is the correct (IMHO)
course of action.

>From: Scott Klement

>It seems to me that when you change it in .Xdefaults (or for that matter,
>in /usr/local/share/tn5250/XTerm which is the .Xdefaults script that
>xt5250 loads)  that you're actually changing the definition of what
>"red" looks like, and what "yellow" looks like, etc.   when the code in
>cursesterm.c says "yellow" you're printing green, etc.
>
>It seems to me that encoding this in .tn5250rc would be a better option.


>On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, James Rich wrote:

>> But my argument is still that colors (and keymaps) should be in
>.Xresources
>> and not in .tn5250rc.  Primarily because that is where xterm keeps its
>> configuration, and since we use xterm (for X display) let's use Xlib and