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gilgamesh

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[SOLVED] View : how to get keyboard shortcuts "Ctrl+1/2/3" to work

hello ,

- I'm running Debian 11 / Xfce4.16

I would like to be able to switch between "icon view" , "list view" or compact view" with the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+1/2/3 but they are grayed out in the View menu , so they don't work . How can I change that ?

edit 1 : I found a thread about this  view_mode that says there is no way ( 2021 ) to get the shell script to work inside a sub-directory . As I don't change the display mode very often , I'll stick to manual selection .

ps : I wait a while before marking " solved " .

Last edited by gilgamesh (2023-06-23 17:36:58)

KBar

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Re: [SOLVED] View : how to get keyboard shortcuts "Ctrl+1/2/3" to work

Did you try? They text is gray but the keybindings work.

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gilgamesh

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Re: [SOLVED] View : how to get keyboard shortcuts "Ctrl+1/2/3" to work

Did you try? They text is gray but the keybindings work.

I did try , but it doesn't work . I've even tried both Ctrl keys , you never know ....

Last edited by gilgamesh (2023-06-23 14:09:43)

KBar

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Re: [SOLVED] View : how to get keyboard shortcuts "Ctrl+1/2/3" to work

Have you changed your config? What do you have in ~/.config/Thunar/accels.scm? We're interested in "<Actions>/ThunarWindow/view-as" actions.

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gilgamesh

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Re: [SOLVED] View : how to get keyboard shortcuts "Ctrl+1/2/3" to work

Have you changed your config? What do you have in ~/.config/Thunar/accels.scm? We're interested in "<Actions>/ThunarWindow/view-as" actions.

* no, I didn't change anything
*here are the actions we are interested in :

(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ThunarWindow/view-as-detailed-list" "<Primary>2")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ThunarWindow/view-as-icons" "<Primary>1")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ThunarWindow/view-as-compact-list" "<Primary>3")

• solved : I have to press Ctrl +[Shift +(1)]  where (1) is on the same key as  &

• what does <Primary> stand for ? ( Ctrl + Shift ) ?

Last edited by gilgamesh (2023-06-23 17:54:12)

KBar

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Re: [SOLVED] View : how to get keyboard shortcuts "Ctrl+1/2/3" to work

(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ThunarWindow/view-as-detailed-list" "<Primary>2")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ThunarWindow/view-as-icons" "<Primary>1")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ThunarWindow/view-as-compact-list" "<Primary>3")

Interesting. Were there no semicolons at the beginning of each line? Could you try adding it there? That'll comment them out and reset the default behavior.

*what does <Primary> stand for ? ( Ctrl + Shift ) ?

It stands for the Control key.

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gilgamesh

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Re: [SOLVED] View : how to get keyboard shortcuts "Ctrl+1/2/3" to work

Interesting. Were there no semicolons at the beginning of each line? Could you try adding it there? That'll comment them out and reset the default behavior.

I don't have to add the semicolons , they already are at the beginning of each line , like this : ; (gtk_accel_path ....

thanks for the help .

Last edited by gilgamesh (2023-06-23 18:05:33)

gilgamesh

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Re: [SOLVED] View : how to get keyboard shortcuts "Ctrl+1/2/3" to work

I have another Debian installation : Debian 12 / Xfce 4.18 . Switching between display modes is done exactly the same way as in Debian 11 .  I also checked accels.scm file : I found the same 3 lines concerning "view-as" . May be it has something to do with debian , what do you think about it ?

edit 1 :   I changed the keyboard layout from French to US : neither Ctrl + Shift + (1/2/3) nor Ctrl + 1/2/3 worked . So Debian has probably nothing to do with it .

edit 2 : I finally got Ctrl + 1/2/3  to work in Debian 12 if LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8  but neither in Debian 12 if LANG=en_US.UTF-8 nor in Debian 11  . It seems there is some kind of interaction between the value of $LANG and this shortcut .

The config file has automatically been modified and now reads :

(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ThunarWindow/view-as-icons" "<Primary>KP_1")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ThunarWindow/view-as-detailed-list" "<Primary>KP_2")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ThunarWindow/view-as-compact-list" "<Primary>KP_3")

Last edited by gilgamesh (2023-06-24 23:06:55)