ctrl+w closes the browser window in webssh2

[premkumarrtech]

Browser is getting closed when we press ctrl+w in webssh2 app

ctrl+w is assigned to search a text in nano editor in linux\ubuntu

Please help me on this

• Node and NPM Version
  • node -v v14.17.5
  • npm -v 6.14.14
• Server OS Version / Distribution / Processor Architecture
  • cat /etc/os-release
    NAME="Ubuntu"
    VERSION="20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
    ID=ubuntu
    ID_LIKE=debian
    PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS"
    VERSION_ID="20.04"
• WebSSH2 release version
  • grep version app/package.json 0.4.2
• OS and Version of SSH server connecting to
  • sshd -v OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.3, OpenSSL 1.1.1f
• Browser Version and OS
  • chrome 95.0.4638.54
  • windows 10 - 64bit
• Any log or messages from the WebSSH2 output
  • none
• screenshot of nano editor
  

[premkumarrtech]

Is there anyway not to close the browser when we hit ctrl+w

[billchurch]

Probably need something it this to capture it.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7295508/javascript-capture-browser-shortcuts-ctrlt-n-w

Will play around with it.

[premkumarrtech]

Thanks @billchurch for your reply... I have gone through the links of the link which you provided.. seems it's not possible to overwrite the reserved the keyboard shortcuts... Let's give a try ..I will update if any progress... Please commit if any possible workaround... blocked to use nano editor search functionality due to this restriction

[premkumarrtech]

For time being, I have changed the shortcut to search as ctrl+F in ctrl+w in nano setting. But this is not case for all the scenario. We would need to fix this issue

[billchurch]

Yeah, everything points to this being hard-wired for Windows and Linux versions (Mac uses command+W so not an issue there). There are some browser extensions which can help (though user has to install)

• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better-ctrl-w/jfknaapblnppeflfamkegnnonlfgokhp?hl=en-US
• https://superuser.com/questions/569248/disable-hardwired-chrome-hot-key-ctrlw

And some OS level fixes:

• https://suraj.io/post/disable-ctrl-w/

Closing this as it seems not possible in the code we control.