John Sikora

Toshiba Laptop Info

Toshiba Satellite Model M55-???
Came with XP Home. Loaded Mandrake Linux 8.1 in dual boot. Reformatted drive to have 40G XP, 40G Linux including (at the moment) 15G Fat_32 that can be shared between the two operating systems.
CYGWIN connection to the CESR29
- In WindowsXP, I installed CYGWIN
- There is an icon on the desktop that starts an X session "startxwin"
- To view the keycode definitions for the laptop, I used "startxwin" to start and X session and the program xev to look at the keycodes.
- Made a file called c: cygwin/home/John/.xmodmap to hold the key definitions (see below)
- Put the following line into c: cygwin/home/John/.bashrc
  xmodmap .xmodmap
- The key definitions as used in LINUX worked except for the BackSpace and Delete keys.
- Needed "keycode 22 = Delete" to get the BackSpace key to work.
- Also added the file .Xdefaults to the home directory with the single line XTerm*deleteIsDEL.
- Need to use ALT Del (Alternate Delete) to delete selected text.
- Connect to CESR29 using "ssh -X -l jps$ cesr29"
In LINUX:
Set up keyboard so that loging onto the CESR control system computers would work (ssh -X -l jps$ CESR29).
- I found that I needed to use XTERM. Using other terminals (like Shell or RXvt) would result in some keys definitions not working.
- The key definitions are in my home directory /home/john/ in a file called ".xmodmap"
- ```
[john@mq100 john]$ more .xmodmap
keycode  22 = BackSpace
keycode  96 = F4
keycode  95 = F11
keycode  76 = F20
keycode  75 = F9
keycode  74 = F18
keycode  73 = F7
keycode  72 = F6
keycode  71 = F5
keycode  70 = F4
keycode  69 = F3
keycode  68 = F2
keycode  67 = F1
keycode 106 = Insert
keycode 107 = Delete
keycode  99 = Prior
keycode 105 = Next
keycode  97 = Find
keycode 103 = Select
```
- The "F12" key on the laptop is keycode 96, this needs to be redefined as "F4" in order to get the "Command" function to work when editing a file with TEV on the control system. What I really wanted to put there was "Execute", but F4 is what worked.
I also added the following line to the ".bashrc" file, so that the keys are redefined when I make a new XTERM
(In the file .bashrc): xmodmap .xmodmap

[john@mq100 john]$ more .bashrc
# .bashrc

# User specific aliases and functions
xmodmap .xmodmap

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
        . /etc/bashrc
fi

I also added some startup parameters to the XTERM so that it would look more like what I wanted.
- I went into the Mandrake "Control Center" and edited the system menu for XTERM so that the command looked like the following.
- ```
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -name Terminal -bg grey -geom 80x43 -fn fixed 
-rightbar
```
- This gives a terminal with grey background that is 80x43 (compatible with CESR/DEC V2 window) and a fixed width font that comes out a nice size and the scrollbar is on the right hand side of the window.
Also added to .bashrc in home directory, some parameters for XSET that sets the repeat key rate and delay, also the mouse acceleration.
Mouse Acceleration 3
Repeat delay 300ms
Repeat rate 25 times/second
```
		xset m 3 r rate 300 25 
```

John Sikora

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