gnome-terminal and ^] telnet escape character

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 1 Feb 2005, at 18:16, Christopher Calzonetti wrote:

> Forgive me asking this question, if it's been asked many many times 
> before.  Searching on google tends to cause the non alphabetic 
> characters to be ignored, so I just get general results about 
> gnome-terminal.
>
> Whenever I telnet to a remote machine (as an example, to test a mail 
> server for some configuration or other:  telnet mail.machine.com 25) I 
> always see the usual "Connected to mail.machine.com, Escape character 
> is '^]'."
>
> When I'm just in an xterm window, or on the console, I can then hit 
> CTRL-], and get the telnet command prompt.  But with gnome-terminal, 
> the key combination seems to be ignored.  I tried turning off all 
> keyboard shortcuts to see if there was something interferring, but to 
> no avail.

Add "Shift" to the mess: Ctrl+Shift+"]"