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Hey Benno, I think our emails crossed at the same time. If you did see
this mail, please disregard.
Just checking since I did switch my email system while this thread has
been ongoing.
Have a great weekend.
On 2023-01-13 09:54, Chris Allegretta wrote:
> 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.