Keyboard Mapping and Case Management on CentOS 5
 

Hi Everyone,


I have a question that I could use some help with. I am running character based software on a CentOS Server using a combination of PuTTY and Anzio WIN as my Terminal Emulators.

I am using SSH as my method of communication.

Everything is working great, however there a few features that Anzio WIN contains that I would like to be able to replicate with PuTTY.

The two features are:

Mapping Function Keys to run Macros

CASE Management (converts ALL keyboard data to UPPER CASE)


I was wondering if there is a way I can do this using a BASH script that gets ran from the users .bash_profile.

Is there a way I can tell the system to take ALL incoming data from the Terminal's keyboard and convert it to upper case, by default, an on a per user basis... If they have the entry in their .bash_profile, then it is applied, if NOT, then it is NOT applied.

And for the Keyboard Function Key mappings, here is an example of what I would like to do.

Let's say when the "F1" is selected, it sends the following string of numbers:

75 20 1

and "F2" would run

18 1 1 3 1 20 75 20 1

The numbers are basically just options on a Character Based menu to be selected. So instead of having to enter all the numbers, each time, I can map an Function Key to send the sequence, therefor reducing the amount of time it takes to run a function...

Any help is very much appreciated and/or links to articles that may help me in my venture.


Thanks In Advance.

Couldn't they just use capslock?


For serverside there's an example for just that at the bottom of 'man keymaps' (but I can't see how 'loadkeys' can be confined to (or triggered by) a useraccount: maybe someone else knows). For clientside, and if run from a DE, maybe a macro recorder like http://xmacro.sourceforge.net/, http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html or http://micans.org/zoem/ could work. Else, if none of this matches and you're running PuTTY from Windows, then IMHO this thread should be in /General.