I just wanted to point out one thing though that could use clarification: Your first code block is labeled with “Here is what I have at the moment, in the __init__ method in lib/app_globals.py:” but in that code block the comments say that the __init__ method and class definition are omitted for brevity.

So is all of this code actually IN the __init__ method and you just leave out the declaration of the method/class or is all of this code just left outside the class completely (as suggested by the indentation level)? I think it’d be more helpful if this was either made clear by the text before the code block, or maybe if all the code was included for clarity.

Thanks again for the post!

Thanks for the info on the Android setup on Ubuntu – helped a lot.

Regards
Bob

Lately, under screen, I have been using C-` (Control – back tick) as the prefix command. That has been working pretty well. I don’t know of any conflicts.

Another option might be a window key, such as win-a, in place of C-a. It seems most keyboards now days have the window key next to the left control key. I don’t think may applications use it and, being that it is for curses based windowing functions, it seems a fairly logical choice. Although, I use it quite a bit for custom bindings to launch windows, such as win-b to launch a browser and win-t to launch an xterm.

I’m a Vim user and I use C-a in Vim (to increment the integer under the cursor). I also use C-a in its Emacs definition in Bash (Home).

I haven’t decided yet what to use myself – some folks say b is too far from the control key, but on an azerty keyboard, it’s not THAT far off. On a qwertz keyboard, z is further; and yes, I am sometimes at machines where you have those keymaps.

Which is another area where tmux is great – control-a [ and control-a ] are the screen bindings for the copy/paste bits… on many keymappings, such as .se/fi, the [ and ] keys require rediculous keypresses (alt, shift, magic-jump-thru-hoop, esc, :, w, q, compose, super, up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start, punch, Å for [) and thus the ability to bind these to, say, the Å key itself is a great thing.

(Yes I know the US doesn’t have an Å key. You also don’t have the key between the Z and the left shift, or the key that would be where the left dogleg of the return key is. So using THOSE keys would be an option, if I didn’t occasionally run into keyboards from the US.)

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