itermkeyboardmacosterminal
I've followed the instructions here on how to make alt→ and alt← skip words backward and forward..
this works just fine on the original window displayed by iterm2.. however when i press F12 and the window shows up.. those keyboard shortcuts don't work any more.. any idea why and how to fix it?
As usual... KeyRemap4MacBook to the rescue :P Its emacs mode will give you those bindings, and you can choose a lot more bindings than that as well:
The function keys work because they are system-wide "media player control keys". Keystrokes always go to the system, which usually passes them exclusively to the active application, but some have special handling. There's a chance that you could reconfigure VLC so that the system-wide media key that means "rewind" does skip back instead. Check that out.
Otherwise you're going to need some kind of additional keyboard shortcut app like QuicKeys. (See also these suggestions). Don't give up yet! You almost certainly can cobble together a solution.
Best Answer
On the Preferences Window of iTerm choose keys and below on the left side you see the Hotkey Configuration. Choose your profile from the option Hotkey toggles a dedicated window with profile. And this should work.