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vx / connectbot

Enhanced version of the popular ConnectBot SSH and telnet client
http://connectbot.vx.sk
Apache License 2.0
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Alt behavior incorrect #29

Closed ysobolev closed 11 years ago

ysobolev commented 11 years ago

I am using a Samsung Epic 4G running CM9. In vanilla ConnectBot, pressing the Fn key allows one to enter the alternate character on the physical keyboard. For example, Fn+q enters a tilde (~), Fn+d enters a pipe (|), etc... This is the default behavior for all applications.

In VX ConnectBox, Fn is intercepted and treated as the Alt key. This makes entering '~' and '|' very difficult. The only way to enter them is via the Sym key and by selecting them from a dialog.

While the Alt key is useful to have, it is not typed anywhere as often as a tilde or a pipe for most SSH connections. It is alright to tap the screen every time you need an Alt key, but it is not alright to need to tap the screen for every tilde, pipe, semicolon, exclamation mark, less than symbol, greater than symbol, question mark, period, etc...

ysobolev commented 11 years ago

Problem went away. Perhaps the hardware keyboard detection is broken. This may be a CM9 issue. I will reopen the issue if I can reproduce the problem.