Gestures in ConnectBot allow a user to do several things for which there's no keyboard equivalent. If the gestures seem backward, then imagine that you're grabbing the text and moving it with your finger.
Page Up / Page Down
Swiping your finger up and down on the left third of the screen will send a page up and page down key to the remote host. Many programs map this to scrolling back into history such as irssi or tinyfugue.
Page Up gesture
Page Down gesture
Scroll back / Scroll forward
Swiping your finger up on the right side of the screen allows you to scroll backward and forward in the local terminal buffer history.
Scroll back gesture
Scroll forward gesture
Switching hosts
Swiping your finger from one side of the screen to the other will switch between currently connected hosts.
Previous host gesture
Next host gesture
Would love a screen gesture to pull up a virtual keyboard with special symbols.
I'm using screen/byobu on my terminal. It would be nice to be able to bind tue horisontal swipe to ctrl+n and +p to change "screens".
I second the special symbols keyboard.
Irssi users, check out the fork called "Irssi Connectbot" (found on the market). It provides horizontal swiping support for moving between chat windows.
I'm using HTC legend, and right sweeps don't seem to register. Left sweep just pan the screen. Right now after several attempts, I'ml unable to enter neither arrow keys (history) nor tab (completion) ; Apart from that this app just rocks, far above all android term emulators I tried ; Am I missing something ? this history thing is a big deal for me.. :( (on a side note, where is my $HOME ? I mean, to what directory should I define it ?)
For me (china tablet only 3 buttons and unitouch) the best could be:
A upside button bar with: 1. Mouse on/off (i.e. on to use "elinks" mouse control, off for gestures) 2. Control on/off (one click = on for one key, two click = persistent, one more = disable) 3. Alt on/off (idem) 4. Keyboard on/off 5. Select other Host
Thanks for this great app!!!
Gestures (best could be customizable, but my recomendation:) > = TAB (basic for bash completion) ^ and v = history bash commands navigation < = Control+r (search history mode)
I'm missing the ergonomic gestures from mobileterminal on idevices. Once used to them, they're extremely efficient and they're very configurable. http://code.google.com/p/mobileterminal/wiki/TipsAndTricks