electrum text gui key bindings

[psb777]

Hi! I want to run electrum on a remote server and was pleased to discover there is a text gui to allow me to manage it plain text over ssh without having to learn the CLI. It all starts up fine with "electrum gui -g text".

But I can't work out what the key bindings are! I've read all the docs I can find but to no avail.

One example question for starters: How do I get to the menu items bottom right of the page? Surely there must be a table of the keys vs functions, somewhere? "Open sub-menu" "advance to next item" "return to menu" etc etc. I'm using Ubuntu Terminal but that's a close clone of xterm and I would happily use whatever! Help!

Thanks in advance (but more thanks to come!)
Paul :-)

[ThomasV]

Hi,

The text gui does not have as many features as Qt.
Note that all amounts are in BTC.

To navigate between screens, use the left-right arrows
shortcuts:
Ctrl-S for settings
Ctrl-N for Network
Ctrl-Q or Ctrl-W to quit

[psb777]

Thanks for that. I can confirm the text gui is mostly usable and is usable enough for my purposes. Very useful, please do not discontinue. I can now get to the bottom right menu. Thanks. However I cannot access the settings.

Code:

$ electrum gui -g text
Error: Cannot read config file. /home/psb/.electrum

The above error seems to have no ill-effect in practice.

The electrum text gui screen is displayed, everything seems to work. I press
<ctrl>-S to get to the settings menu. electrum stops and this traceback
log is displayed:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/electrum", line 500, in <module>
    server.gui.main()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_gui/text.py", line 288, in main
    self.run_tab(0, self.print_history, self.run_history_tab)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_gui/text.py", line 230, in run_tab
    c = self.main_command()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_gui/text.py", line 220, in main_command
    elif curses.unctrl(c) == '^S': self.settings_dialog()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_gui/text.py", line 398, in settings_dialog
    {'label':'Default fee', 'type':'satoshis', 'value': format_satoshis(self.wallet.fee_per_kb).strip() }
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/util.py", line 171, in format_satoshis
    x = int(x)  # Some callers pass Decimal
TypeError: int() argument must be a string or a number, not 'instancemethod'

This bug report likely should be made elsewhere?

Thanks
Paul :-)

[ThomasV]

thanks, I fixed that in git master