On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 01:01:58PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
When I try to close my Xfce terminal emulator while nano is still
running,
I get a dialog box asking me "*Close window?* A process is still
running."
Why does the terminal-in-the-browser not have the same feature?
And as Sébastien asks: why does the browser grab only ^W? Why does it
not
grab ^F to search in the terminal page, ^A to select all text in that
page,
M-E to open the Edit menu of the browser? And so on. How does this
work?
Do all other Ctrl+letter and Alt+letter keystrokes of nano work just
fine?
Or are there still a few more that are grabbed by the browser?
It looks like there are a few 'essential' keys that that Firefox does
not
to pass through to the session: namely ^W, ^N and ^T. All other keys I
tested
seem to pass through to the client.
Also, when running a terminal-in-the-browser, is nano running locally
on
the same machine as the browser? Or is a terminal-in-the-browser
always
used to access a remote machine?
Generally no this is generally for accessing a remote machine. For
connecting
to a virtualized host this might more frequently be the case.
> To me, nano's intended audience was always the 1st year University
> student sitting down at the terminal in their CS101 class, who is
> actually looking at and being grateful for the 'bottombars', with the
> help description for the mainly used keys plainly written and
> accessible. I believe more and more nowadays those folks will likely be
> using some web terminal [...]
Can anyone on this list confirm that they use nano through a browser
window
sometimes?
Yes, I do all the time.
And is their anyone who can give me access to a
terminal-in-the-browser so
that I can experience how this works?
Under a debian install with proper virtualization support, you could
'apt install cockpit cockpit-machines' and then log into VM manager
interface
on localhost:9090 to set up and connect to a sample VM.