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Tab key in accelerators? (specifically new tab and prev/next tabs)
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
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Xfce4-terminal
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Description Leeman 2014-12-09 21:52:44 CET
The only part of xfce I use is the terminal, so it and dependencies it has are all I have installed on Arch.  IMHO a solution to this should not require installation of additional packages.

I am trying to use <Meta>-Tab as the 'Open Tab' accelerator.  Similar bug: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3524 marked 'resolved fixed' but no indication as to how it was fixed or what to do in order to accomplish the objective.  

I can manually stick <Meta>-Tab in ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/accels.scm and it displays in the menu.  However it does not function.  The <Meta> is not at issue as any other <Meta> combo does work fine.
Comment 1 Leeman 2014-12-09 22:09:48 CET
Tried:
xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -p "/xfwm4/default/<Super>Tab" -s ""
xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -p "/xfwm4/default/<Alt>Tab" -s ""
xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -p "/xfwm4/default/<Alt><Shift>Tab" -s ""

To wipe any previous reference to the Tab key from the config... no luck.
Comment 2 Igor editbugs 2017-05-04 16:29:19 CEST
GTK doesn't allow using Tab in shortcuts.
Comment 3 Leeman 2017-05-04 17:08:02 CEST
Pidgin has no issue w/ Tab in it's accelerator for switching conversation tabs.
Comment 4 Igor editbugs 2017-05-04 18:28:40 CEST
As I understood from pidgin code snippet, it hard codes accelerators that contain Tab. This allows it to have a simple switch calling predefined actions on predefined accelerators.
For xfec4-terminal, that supports accelerator customization, it would be required to go through all supported actions and look if any of them has Tab in its accelerator, and that would be a huge effort performed on each Tab key press.
Comment 5 Igor editbugs 2019-04-03 20:38:42 CEST
Tab key is now allowed in accelerators: see https://git.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal/commit?id=650b4f8324d3b977bd3cf2ccdef4a08f0a067e7d

Bug #11369

Reported by:
Leeman
Reported on: 2014-12-09
Last modified on: 2019-04-03

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