Re: Escape + number performs actions other than switching to window by number

On Thu, 31 May 2018 10:33:47 -0500
Dun Peal <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Amadeusz,
> 
> Can you tell me how to see what combination each key generates?
> 
> I'm sorry, my knowledge of how virtual terminals work is very limited.
> 
> This is Xubuntu 18.04, running XFCE 4.12 and xfce4-terminal 0.8.7.3
> (these are all the standard latest updates on a vanilla Xubuntu
> install).
> 
> I can already tell you my terminal behaves slightly differently than
> yours - by contrast to you, my 0 doesn't work, whereas 2 and 8 do
> work, in addition to 1 and 9 that worked for you.
> 

Ah yes I made a typo and copy pasted it all over...
You have to press Ctrl-v and then for example Ctrl-1, to see what
Ctrl-1 generates. 
So basically you press
Ctrl+v, Ctrl-1, Ctrl-c
Ctrl+v, Ctrl-2, Ctrl-c
and so on.

> > Can you tell me what terminal do you use and what does
> > Ctrl+v Ctrl-1
> > Ctrl+v Ctrl-2
> > Ctrl+v Ctrl-3
> > Ctrl+v Ctrl-4
> > Ctrl+v Ctrl-5
> > Ctrl+v Ctrl-6
> > Ctrl+v Ctrl-7
> > Ctrl+v Ctrl-8
> > Ctrl+v Ctrl-9
> > Ctrl+v Ctrl-0
> > generate?
> > (Don't forget to press Ctrl-c after each one of those combinations, so
> > they are not glued together)
> >