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rpwoodbu
The Alt-Gr modifier key works inconsistently.
For example, on my UK keyboard, I can type ¦ (on the ```/¬ key), but not € (on the 4/$ key).
Can you repro on the Secure Shell app? This seems like a terminal emulation thing, and we both use the same hterm emulator.
alt- gr + '+' should make a ~ on german keyboard, instead it behaves like ctrl + '+' same with - (zoom in and out ?) it behaves differently on the number row (which is used with alt-gr to type { [ ] } \ ) i havent used mosh before so cant really tell whats going on, trying to reproduce it with secure shell next
@rpwoodbu, I do not have this issue on the secure shell app that you linked, I can type € on it.
same issues on the Secure shell app
although.. 789 work (for {[] )
0 and ß dont (should give }\ )
+ and - also zoom in and out
my keyboard layout is german.. and we are testing on the same raspberry pi from different clients/computers
also tested using the mosh plugin in mobaXterm (free version) (after some issues with not resolvbing the ip correctly) altgr key combos work fine there
This is a bit confusing to me. Seems like these reports conflict somewhat, but if I read you right, @Achati, you're saying that there is a difference in behavior, but neither is perfect. So I'm thinking that maybe at least part of this issue has been fixed in the upstream hterm. Unfortunately, as I only have a US keyboard, it is difficult for me to test (or really to understand). If someone can try building Mosh for Chrome with a newer hterm and testing themselves, that would be helpful. It is easy: Just update the submodule deps/libapps to a more recent commit in that repo, commit that change to local git, and then follow the build instructions in README.md.
As Mosh for Chrome is largely just a bunch of glue binding together mosh, hterm, and Chrome, this is likely going to be a bug in one of those components. So the end result is likely that this issue won't get fixed until/unless the bug is fixed upstream.
I just tested mosh from a linux based client, it does not have this issue, so I guess this is not a problem in mosh itself.
it seems like any key that is used in combination with ctrl will act as ctrl key combo when used with altgr (in secure-shell) its also unable to type @ or € its worse in mosh-chrome since 789 are probably linked to ctrl combinations as well well thats my guess..
this might be the issue.. it describes the same behaviour i have experienced: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-hterm/BQdhTAyaoGk
Sadly, I cannot build this with my computer, as I do not have any access to a Linux computer that I can compile with.