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Here's me in gnome-terminal, using telnet.

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As it says "Escape character is '^]'

I've no idea which keys to hit, CTRL ] , CTRL Å , CTRL ^ does nothing.

This is the keyboard layout of Norwegian keyboards - which keys do I hit to get to the telnet escape prompt ?

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nos
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You can set up the escape character you want by passing the option -e " your escapechar"

-e escapechar -Sets the escape character to escapechar. If no character is supplied, no escape character will be used. Entering the escape character while connected causes telnet to drop to command mode.

LnxSlck
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Using the command showkey -a you can check which character sequence a terminal application receives. You can try different key combinations until you find one showing ^] 29 0035 0x1d.

~$ showkey -a

Press any keys - Ctrl-D will terminate this program


^]       29 0035 0x1d
^D        4 0004 0x04

Note: In my case I was looking for a combination for the Czech QWERTY keyboard layout with Windows Terminal. The working one is Ctrl+ů. The key ů is ; in the US layout. The combinations Ctrl+AltGr+... do not work at all in Windows Terminal but they work in Mintty / WSLtty.

pabouk - Ukraine stay strong
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Gnome Terminal does not pass the escape sequence to the telnet session. The only way is setting a different escape char when starting telnet, or using a different terminal emulation other than the gnome terminal.

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