The font size can be adjusted with the volume control buttons.

how about on a moto droid? I cant access the F keys because they are on ALT modifiers on lettered keys. cant hit the directional controller button plus 4 to get f4 and no combination of button, alt, and 4 gets me there.

Moto Droid does not have trackball. Another solution for pressing CTRL?

Justfigured out how to do ctrl on moto droid. Press center of dpad then lettr such as c. Nice.

@darren.ankney Thank you so much for posting back. I really needed control keys. Never thought to press the center of the that pad then the letter. Works great.

How about the LG eve? no trackball,no alt or ctrl and pressing thescreen centre didn't change the input :( There is also no vertical bar

Can not figure out a tab on the Samsung Moment keyboard.

Also with the LG GW620 (eve), a solution to press Ctrl+Key would be great ?

I agree the LG GW620 is difficult to use. When I press the track ball, I can only get the menu, rather than using it to send Ctrl. The EVE also doesn't have right and left shift keys or an alt key.

I think would be be very helpful and would work across multiple devices is window to enter 'difficult' input. For example, press the appropriate button to show the menu. There could be an option here to 'enter key sequence.' This option would have special text entry box, where the key sequence could be created before sending it to the terminal. This window would have bascially an onscreen keyboard for entering the special sequences.

An alternative solution might be instead of showing a onscreen keyboard, use menus to enter the sequence. So, once selecting 'enter key sequence', the options might be Ctrl+X Alt+X Function ...

Selecting Ctrl+X would prompt for X. Selecting Function key would prompt to select the function key.

still no word on F1, F4 function key input on Motorolla Droid? Can't seem to get that command to work. End up with a tilde when i hit alt (twice to lock number mode) and then shift+1.

Anyone with a droid who can send F1 PLEASE help!

What about the pipe " | " key?

johnny.r.hughes: | is shift-alt-,

Anyone got any idea how to use the function keys on Motorola Droid/Milestone(EU)? Got the same problem as dandenson. I am not able to use a software and hardware keyboard mix. Software keyboard got no trackball. Hardware would need to press shift+alt+the modifies letter key (q=1, w=2...) How does it work?

Same problem like demonaz82 with my Milestone, the european droid.

Any solution for that?

just found it by accident! on my Driod, it seems that the left ALT key will work for the second keyboard options.

What about sending an ALT key? irssi uses Alt-1, Alt-2, Alt-3, etc. to switch between channels, but I can't seem to figure out how to do so with ConnectBot?. Motorola Droid.

How to send ESC key in Motorola Backflip?

@gulopine I haven't figured out how to send an ALT-1 yet, but for irssi, you can get by with Ctrl(dpad click)-N and Ctrl-P for next window and previous window.

What is the keys for "$" character in azerty keyboard ? (milestone)

Hi, lg eve/gw620 user here. It would be really nice to have a workaround for missing ctrl and esc keys.

Ctrl on Motorola Backflip on the physical keyboard is the OK? button. Hit it four times and it defaults to TAB (auto completion!)

Thanks for the volume control font size changer tip, James. I was able to reboot my server without getting out of bed for my reading glasses last night! :)

Any fix/workarounds for the LG Eve?

Moto ME600,Control key is "OK",press "OK" 7 times can send a Tab key.

i agree, no function key support is available on the moto droid. remapping the keys would be a little extreme as there are only so many available on the droid... http://pdk.android.com/online-pdk/guide/keymaps_keyboard_input.html

maybe if i can add a development patch to fix this issue.

regards, dunpealslyr

the samsung moment only has fn and Shift key on left only, and arrow keys on right

it has no alt key, i havent figured out how to send alt on it at all yet

lg eve 620 can use camera button for escape or ctrl a (good for screen) . Shift + number key is corresponding function key so shift 0 if Fn10 which is menubar in emacs . You can bind the function keys toi commands in a keymap file, use read in bash to get the codes. Otherwise it is the full keyboard app to get ctrl charachters.

This software is really neat. Thank you for your work on it.

I learned how to do all the things I wanted to do with it by reading the documentation.

I have just purchased an iRobot apad. This device is not a phone, and it does not have a trackball. It does have a USB controller, and my USB keyboard works perfectly, except...

CTRL, ESC, and TAB do not work, nor can I find any workaround.

I would be ok with finding these keys on the screen, and they seem to appear from time to time, but I certainly do not know the sequence to activate them.

Also, volume control goes berserk and ramps the fonts either all the way up, or all the way down.

Are there any other ssh clients?

Sounds like the apad is a piece of junk and it appears to be using pirated applications (Market without passing CTS, etc).

Note on the Droid 2: the hardware "OK" button is CTRL. I haven't figured out how to do ESC.

Pipe doesn't work on a Motorola Charm, using "SHIFT-ALT-,"

Are their any alternate key combos?

Are there any plans to bring the F-Keys to work on the Motorola Milestone?

smartax: try OK twice for escape? Otherwise there is a setting to set the camera button to esc. have you tried that?

@tgwaste double-tapping works for escape; thanks!

Pipe is not working for droid 2. Also, it would be cool if the tab key in the upper left worked for tab completion.

I have a Droid 2 and I'm also trying to figure out tab (and pipe).

Is there a way to subscribe to this page so we get notices when it's updated.

Ctrl for Epic 4G? No trackball, dpad "center" or OK keys here :-( However there are unused smiley and sym keys where left ctl and alt would go, would be very nice to map those as ctrl and alt! Tab would be nice too (but ctrl+i would suffice).

I am on a moto cliq. This app is absolutely amazing. Works perfectly! Thank you!

I was wondering if there is any way to type backticks and curly braces?

Thanks again.

Etna (LG Eve, GW620R) running opentna. I noticed with connectbot, atleast a recetn upgrade, the keys are screwed! I mean, Alt-Anything never corresponds to the actual keys inscribed on my keyboard. I cannot find the forward slash ('/') at all! Anyone have any idea what is going on.

ConnectBot? 1.7.1

more on the last note, Alt- w, e, r -> produces 1,2,3. Alt-s, d, f -> 4,5,6 ...

it might be an issue with my keymap although everything else works. I will be looking at src/org/connectbot/service/TerminalKeyListener?.java later on to understand what my keys are sending out.

http://modmymobile.com/forums/562-motorola-cliq-general/555455-fix-alt-key-mappings-connectbot-2-1-roms.html Workaround for Motorola DEXT

1,How to move the cursor in the connectBot?left move,right move.. 2,How to get the previous command?like linux ↑ please help!

How about hardware Ctrl Key Toshiba-A100 (netbook on android) do have them, but they are completly ignored by ConnectionBot?...

I have the full keyboard installed ok n the Tmobile g2x, but tab and ctrl-i don't work. suggestions for tab auto complete?

Try to install "keyboard with ctrl key" on the market, it's free. You can have tab, ctrl, arrows, etc. It works great on connectbot.

I have an Asus Eee Pad transformer with the keyboard dock. The physical keyboard has Ctrl, alt and Tab keys but none of them work in Connectbot. I also could not find any way to configure Connectbot to configure these keys. Can anyone provide suggestions as to how I can make full use of these keys without having to use on screen gestures? Thanks for your help!

I have exactly the same problem with Transformer. The Ctrl and ESC keys are especially important when using Vim. Wish ConnectBot? support Transformer keybboard soon. Thanks in advance!

Have a Transformer as well. Cannot enter the symbols normally available by hitting SHIFT and a number key. Have tried with/without the physical keyboard with the same result.

+1 to the Transformer problem. Makes normal use nearly impossible (code without parentheses?) Help would be much appreciated.

I also have a Transformer. The inability to enter symbols w/ shift+numberkey renders connectbot almost unusable for me. Any help would be excellent.

My keyboard stooped work? I don't know what is happen? Perhaps I did blocked... Do you know what to do?

Yep, gonna have to return the transformer, without connectbot a tablet is useless to me.

I have the same problem, please add support for the transformer keyboard.

+1 on the transformer issue.. vim is pretty much impossible to use with the physical transformer keyboard and that unfortunately renders connectbot nearly useless for what I do.

+1 to the transformer problem ...

+1 on the transformer issue, using "Better Terminal Emulator Pro" until it is fixed.

Ditto for transformer problem here. Adding an activity to let us remap the keys would seem to be a general solution for all these problems.

LOL we all have the tranformer problem. Going to try Better Terminal Emulator Pro today.

I have a slightly modified fork of connectbot for asus transformer, you can try it.

https://github.com/downloads/lorantkurthy/connectbot/ConnectBot.apk

(The repo is at https://github.com/lorantkurthy/connectbot)

Better Terminal Emulator Pro has major shortcomings (for me at least) like no support for multisession, no utf-8 encoding, and so on.

kurt you're a hero. your fork works like a charm with transformer

i appreciate the fix, but that .apk didn't seem to make a different for me.

Scratch that: does indeed work. Had to uninstall old version first. Very much appreciated, thank you greatly.

+1 to fix the asus transformer keybindings

+1 asus transformer fix

+1 to the transformer fix. After uninstalling the original and activating the Transformer keyboard option :) Works perfectly - thanks a lot :)

so glad for the transformer fix! put it on the market?

Kurt, you sir are a quality contributor!

Kurt, you sir are a quality contributor!

boo-yah! Thanks so much for that fork.

Thanks so much for the transformer fix! Very nice.

Transformer++

Kurt

thank you very much, works nice :)

Kurt,

Thank you, my eee pad is useful now!

Hi, great product..... Any suggestions on getting a working keyboard for a tablet (Galaxy tab)?

Hello. I understand that you can tap on the screen to type Ctrl. On my Sony Ericsson X10 mini pro it works so that when I tap on the screen, two icons appear: Ctrl and Esc. I can tap on either of those to type Ctrl or Esc and a key. But the trouble is that these two icons are extremely small and hard to reach by tapping on the screen. I often have to tap about ten times before being so lucky that I select the Ctrl icon. Is there any way of increasing the size of those two icons or making Ctrl and key easier to type?

Downloaded the patched .apk file for the eee pad transformer, uninstalled the current version of ConnectBot?, and installed the patch. But I see no difference, and I can't find a place to "activate the Transformer keyboard option" in either the Settings menu or elsewhere. What am I missing? Could someone tell me exactly what to do? Thanks!

Kurt, great work with the patch, I'm able to use the control key on my Asus eee pad. But, the Alt/Alt Gr key doesn't seem to work. In emacs its used for changing modes. Would be good to fix that as well, that way, the Asus Dock will have full usability on ConnectBot?.

Thanks a lot for the previous fix.

Holy moley, Kurt -- thanks for the TF101 patch! ConnectBot? is useable now...

Hello. The patch works fine for me with Eee Transformer, thanks !

Kurt, thanks a lot man! :)

Kurt, thanks for patch.

I built a version of ConnectBot? that works on the Eee Pad Slider as well. I basically enabled Kurthy's fix for the Slider in addition to the Transformer. The APK is found here:

http://cjix.info/files/ConnectBot-release.apk

Repo at https://github.com/jichuan89/connectbot

hey to the user behind the last comment: please patch the latest version of git TABLET branch for that.

Hi,

I bought my HTC phone because of ConnectBot? but currently very disappointed because my HTC Status/ChaCha? with a physical keyboard is very unsupported.

There's no ALT, CTRL or Trackball on the HTC ChaCha?, only a "Sym" button which is not functional in ConnectBot?. So currently I cant do much with ConnectBot? on that phone.

I'm very happy with connectbot on my Transformer. But the esc key is a bit unconfortabe in the search button. Is it possible to have ESC in the right position ? (on the "back" button of the keyboard) ?

I'm having the same problem as pking on Sep 16: neither Kurt's nor jichuan89's version has a "Transformer mode" option in settings. Could this be because my system is not in English?

I have a asus Eee pad TF101 anybody have any idea how the heck to access Bios? There is no F2 key and I've tried a bunch of different combinations....?

Really struggling with connectbot on ice cream sandwich (galaxy nexus) - it has no buttons for alt, no physical camera button, arrow keys and no trackball. Anyone got any tips?

Ignore my previous comment - I installed Full Keyboard from the market and it works superbly with connectbot.

It's been mentioned, but probably worth mentioning again -- on the Asus Transformer, tap the screen, then tap the CTRL that pops up bottom-left of the screen, then type a C -- hey presto, ^C

Mark

Needs far better support for physical keyboards, especially now that tablets are taking off, and you even have a dedicated tablet build of ConnectBot?! I'm using the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with the physical keyboard dock, and while the tab key works like a charm, I really need ctrl- shortcuts to work. Tapping the screen and tapping ctrl every time I need an emacs command is just not going to work.

connect bot is great but is there a way to add an ssh binary to the transformer so you can ssh out directly from the internal shell?

Tab and Ctrl doesn't work on Samsung Keyboard Dock for Galaxy tab 8.9. Any ideas how to fix it and how to handle Alt and Esc keys (the keyboard dock doesn't have them, but has many other keys, maybe remap some of them?)

Tab and Ctrl works for Samsung Keyboard Dock for Galaxy Tab 8.9 with Tablet build. Not found Esc and Alt keys though..

on the transformer prime ctrl and esc does not work as expected, I'm also having trouble using shift + number keys to insert / and other characters, but if i press it twice I get ?/ so i can live with that, but I need for ctrl to work, I use it so much that I cant tap the screen and click ctrl and then whatever keys I need to press. usually ctrl + a + (a,d,c) or ctrl + r, ctrl + c.

anyway, very nice app, but I can't really use it when it's "defective"

HI there

really need to know how to move the cursor on a virtual keyboard

I've got the transformer prime too and after installing the tablet fix from https://github.com/lorantkurthy/connectbot/downloads I still can't get shift+number keys to work (ie. !@#$%^&() ). Any help, suggestions, or ETA on a fix for this?

Really don't get it what that patch did. I see no keyboard option in the application specific to transformer prime. How was it supposed to work? If it is that "tapping to get the ctrl icon", it doesn't really help much. Of course I'm grateful for someone helping out, and for free also, but I just like to know how it was supposed to work.

It turns out that lorantkurthy's Transformer patch only worked on the original Transformer, not the Transformer Prime. I forked his repository and made a version that also works with the Transformer Prime (TF201).

I also made the Back key generate ESC, which will make your life easier if you use vi. Be warned that this will remove all Back functionality while using ConnectBot? since it also overrides the soft Back button on the tablet screen.

APK: https://github.com/downloads/tlau/connectbot/connectbot-TF201.apk Git repository: https://github.com/tlau/connectbot

Hi,

I just downloaded and installed the above apk (and uninstalled previous connect-bot) and still have an issue with CTRL. I use screen in my ssh session and use ctrl-a a lot. It doesn't work on my transformer prime ...

Tessa! Thank you so much!!!

Kurt, thank you so much!

Tessa, thank you very much! For a long time looking for a normal solution...

Any ideas how to get "Voice" button on galaxy tab keyboard dock to work as Alt/Meta?

I have the droid 4 and there seems to be no way to make use of the symbols ie: !@#$%^&() as theres no alt key and the shift key + 1-0 are mapped to the fn keys.

Tessa! Great! Thanks for 201 TP