In Thunar Ability to association keyboad shortcut "SPACE" to move to parent folder, viz the same as Alt+↑ keyboard shortcut. MOTIVATION: Using a laptop, which touchpad, the closest and easiest keyboard shortcut is the space bar
Quit thunar with "thunar -q" Edit ~/.config/Thunar/accels.scm Copy that line(to keep a backup) and uncomment the new one: (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ThunarWindow/open-parent" "space") Note that space is already bound to "activate item", which imo is as well usefull and will be overwritten like that .. I dont know where that can be re-bound. Maybe better to use "<Primary>space" or "<Alt>space". Hint: If you add a new UserCustomAction with keyboard shortcut, it aswell will show here .. like that you can check the name used for every key..
How marvelous, it works and it's so convenient. But you went too fast for my knowledge: >Note that space is already bound to "activate item", which imo is as well usefull and will be overwritten like that .. I dont know where that can be re-bound. ???? Well, I didn't find "space" into the accels.scm before its modification. What's the effect of "activate item"? >Maybe better to use "<Primary>space" or "<Alt>space". What is "<Primary>space", you mean the space bar or some special keyboard key + SPACE?
(In reply to phil4000n from comment #2) > Well, I didn't find "space" into the accels.scm before its modification. > What's the effect of "activate item"? If the file is a folder, it will be opened in thunar. All other files will be opened with the default application for that file-type. I as well did not find "space" inside that file .. so far I have no idea where the "activate" can be configured. > >Maybe better to use "<Primary>space" or "<Alt>space". > What is "<Primary>space", you mean the space bar or some special keyboard > key + SPACE? <Primary> seems to be "Strg". So "<Primary>space" describes pressing Strg+Space ... <alt>space than is pretty much self-explaining.
Google tells me Strg key on keyboard is German for "Steuerung", which is CTRL or control key. It's really a great feature of Thunar to have shorcut keys. However, this does not show, is not apparent with menu Edition>Preferences in which there is no "Shortcut keys" tab. I recommend to add this feature or at least under the "Advanced" tab, a notice with a reference URL link explaining how to have such feature.
(In reply to phil4000n from comment #4) > However, this does not show, is not apparent with menu Edition>Preferences > in which there is no "Shortcut keys" tab. > I recommend to add this feature or at least under the "Advanced" tab, a > notice with a reference URL link explaining how to have such feature. Actually I as well thought about such a feature a while ago ... just opened a bug for it: Bug #16334 I will not have time to work on it in the near future ... so if have time, a constribution would be very welcome !