Hi guys, many many thanks for you detailed answers! You shared with me very important insights about inner workings of screen.
Kind regards, Gheorghe On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:41 AM, luteijn <lute...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Hi, > 'ctrl-;' doesn't really exist (for certain definitions of existing), so > that's why it's likely not possible to bind it to something in screen. It > might be that your terminal sends the equivalent of ctrl-[ when you press > ctrl and ;, or it might just not send anything. As ctrl-[ is the same as > pressing the escape key, you might not want to actually bind anything to it. > > Window managers typically don't get information in the same way from the > keyboard as screen does (screen just gets a stream of characters typed, the > WM can get information like key-X-pressed, key-Y-pressed, key-Y-released > etc.), so ctrl-; could work fine there. > > I guess you could use hjkl instead of jkl; for directions (although ctrl-h > sends the same as backspace; in general lots of control characters > (including ctrl-a) are not too suitable as hotkeys as they are already used > for something, by the programs you'll be running). > > Unfortunately, there really aren't that many unused keys on our keyboards > that you can use for these kind of macro's. At work I have to use windows > anyway, so there I've set up Autohotkey to change what is being send by the > numeric keypad to short escape-sequences that screen can then interpret and > use to do the sort of things you are trying to bind to ctrl-jkl;. For some > time I even had an entire second keyboard just for these hotkeys, and used > a little program meant for flight simulators enthusiasts to remap anything > sent from that keyboard to special escape sequences. > > Some good 'free' keys/combinations that I've found to work on basic > keyboards are the F-keys, ctrl-\, and prefixing things with an <ESC> > (usually sent by pressing alt-<key>, but can also be faked by pressing the > escape key and the other key in quick succession). > > > Regards, > Pieter > > > _______________________________________________ > screen-users mailing list > screen-users@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users > -- Gheorghe Lisca MSc. | liscagheor...@gmail.com <li...@cs.uni-bremen.de> Universität Bremen | Am Fallturm 1 28359 Bremen | Germany Tel: +49 421 218-64019 | http://ai.uni-bremen.de Fax: +49 421 218-64047 | http://www.open-ease.org - Open Knowledge for AI-enabled robots
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