Gestures in ConnectBot allow a user to do several things for which there's no keyboard equivalent. If the gestures seem backward, then imagine that you're grabbing the text and moving it with your finger.

# Page Up / Page Down

Swiping your finger up and down on the left third of the screen will send a page up and page down key to the remote host. Many programs map this to scrolling back into history such as irssi or tinyfugue.

Page Up gesture

Page Down gesture

# Scroll back / Scroll forward

Swiping your finger up on the right side of the screen allows you to scroll backward and forward in the local terminal buffer history.

Scroll back gesture

Scroll forward gesture

# Switching hosts

Swiping your finger from one side of the screen to the other will switch between currently connected hosts.

Previous host gesture

Next host gesture