xfce4-terminal version 0.8.3, Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 I have CanChangeAccels set in my preferences and all other apps allow me to change my accelerator keys by hovering over the menu and pressing the appropriate key sequence, as normal. xfce4-terminal does not however, all the accelerator key sequences are greyed out and keypresses have no effect.
Note: "Disable all menu access keys" is deselected in the preferences and existing accelerator keypresses, e.g. Shift+Control-T to open a new tab, work as expected.
Hi Alan, Editable accelerators was a GTK feature that has been discontinued in GTK3: see https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-can-change-accels xfce4-terminal accelerators can be modified via ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/accels.scm file.
Thanks for the pointer, however that's not what the xfce4 FAQ says (https://docs.xfce.org/faq), which explicitly mentions xfce4-terminal, and the editable accelerators mechanism works when enabled in all the other apps I've tried, so it's confusing (to say the least) that it doesn't work in xfce4-terminal. Could the FAQ be updated with a reference to the accels.scm alternative, at least? Thanks.
Thanks for pointing this out! I've updated https://docs.xfce.org/faq and https://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/start pages.
Excellent, thanks - editing the preferences file was easy enough and does the job.