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2 <head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head>
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5 <h2>Virtual Keyboard</h2>
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7 <p>Since ConnectBot doesn&#x27;t use any of the normal TextView
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8 widgets, Android&#x27;s IME structure isn&#x27;t designed to directly
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9 support it.</p>
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10 <p>The best way to use Android with a virtual keyboard is in <strong>Portrait</strong>
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11 mode. By default, ConnectBot is set to use <strong>Portrait</strong>
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12 mode when no hardware keyboard is present. To change this setting, go to
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13 <strong>Preferences</strong> from the <strong>Host List</strong>.</p>
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14 <p>In <strong>Landscape</strong> mode, the Android virtual keyboard
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15 (or other IMEs) will take up the entire screen. Android provides no way
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16 for ConnectBot to resize the terminal view in <strong>Landscape</strong>.
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17 However, you may use a <i>work-around</i>: <strong>Force Resize</strong>
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18 to fit above the virtual keyboard if desired.</p>
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19 <p>On devices without a hardware keyboard, you may press and hold
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20 the <strong>MENU</strong> button to bring up the virtual keyboard. NOTE:
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21 This applies to any program on the Android platform; it is not
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22 ConnectBot specific.</p>
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24 <h2>How to Enter Control, Alt, Escape, and Function Keys</h2>
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25 <p>You can enter any key combination with ConnectBot and the virtual
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26 keyboard, but you must know how keys are mapped on a normal console. For
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27 instance, usually combinations of ALT+letter on a PC keyboard are
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28 actually mapped to sending, sequentially, ESC key then the letter.</p>
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29 <p>Note there are also screen gestures: see the ScreenGestures help topic.</a>
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30 for <strong>Page Up</strong> and <strong>Page Down</strong>.</p>
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31 <ul>
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32 <li>Trackball: 1 press is <strong>CTRL</strong>, 2 presses sends <strong>ESC</strong>
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33 </li>
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34 <li><strong>Tab key</strong> = <strong>CTRL + i</strong></li>
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35 <li><strong>Function key</strong> = <strong>CTRL + number</strong>
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36 </li>
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37 </ul>
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39 <h2>On-Screen symbols</h2>
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40 <p>By touching the bottom line of your screen a pop-up list of
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41 on-screen symbols will appear:</p>
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42 <ul>
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43 <li><strong>Ctrl</strong> - presses the CTRL key. Tap-and-hold
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44 opens a CTRL+? letter dialog window.</li>
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45 <li><strong>Esc</strong> - presses the ESC key. Tap-and-hold
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46 opens the Function Keys dialog window.</li>
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47 <li><strong>Sym</strong> - opens the Character Picker window.
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48 Tap-and-hold opens the arrow keys navigation window.
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49 <li><strong>Empty</strong> - allows to insert a single line of text.
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50 <li><strong>Keyboard</strong> - shows the virtual keyboard.
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51 </ul>
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53 <h2>Examples</h2>
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54 <ul>
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55 <li><strong>ESC</strong> = Press the trackball twice.</li>
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56 <li><strong>ALT + Right Arrow</strong> = Press trackball twice
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57 then move trackball to right.</li>
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58 <li><strong>CTRL + A</strong> = Press trackball once then tap the
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59 &quot;A&quot; key on the soft keyboard.</li>
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60 <li><strong>F3</strong> = Press trackball once then tap the
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61 &quot;3&quot; key on the soft keyboard.</li>
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62 </ul>
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