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gschwarz

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Registered: 2023-03-30

Posts: 23

Change shortcut for moving item from desktop to trash?

When I select an item (or several items) on the XFCE desktop, I can move it/them to the trash by hitting CTRL+DEL.
Is there a way to modify that shortcut, e.g. to use CTRL+Backspace instead (or in addition)?

Although this feels like a trivial question I was unable to come up with posts on that issue.
The Keyboard Settings shortcut  tab does not seem to cover that functionality, nor does it looks like functionally related to the file manager's (e.g. Thunar's) settings.

Last edited by gschwarz (2024-08-25 20:28:54)

gschwarz

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Registered: 2023-03-30

Posts: 23

Re: Change shortcut for moving item from desktop to trash?

As xfdesktop's keyboard shortcuts are hard-coded I opened the following feature request:
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/-/issues/307

Last edited by gschwarz (2024-09-02 18:14:00)

chang-zhao

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Registered: 2023-11-20

Posts: 42

Re: Change shortcut for moving item from desktop to trash?

I use Autokey that allows, among other things, one hotkey to emulate another.
E.g. I set Ctrl-Tab to emulate Ctrl-PageDown in Thunar, to switch tabs with either of the hotkeys.

Last edited by chang-zhao (2024-09-04 01:37:00)