You can get the QR code for your tunnel URL within the terminal by pressing c
or u
.
To hide the qr code again, just press Esc
.
In normal mode just press c
to display QR-Code.
It will display QR-Code for the tunnel url in ASCII format like this.
You can use the arrow keys to change the QR Code for different urls. Press Esc
to return to normal page.
This QR Code is printed using ASCII characters. Thus, it is compatible with most of the terminals. However, it might not fit into small terminal windows. For a more compact QR Code, use the unicode version.
To get a compact QR Code, we have option for unicode QR. Press u
to print QR-Code drawn using unicode.
Unicode QR-Code can easily fit inside a 80x25 terminal. However, the terminal must have support for unicode character-set. Otherwise the result is unpredictable.
Pinggy also supports keywords qr
and aqr
while creating tunnel to print QR in the TUI like the following.
This keyword needs to be passed with the username as following:
Here qr
would produce QR code in unicode while aqr
would produce QR code in ASCII.