User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5 Build Identifier: It is very unusual and a bit confusing, but mostly just annoying that after pressing the spacebar to give an item focus the item is selected (which is what I want) but also executed (which I expect to have to press Enter to do). This happens in all three types of views. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Single-click on a file once. 2. Click on some area of the file manager that's not associated with a file (white space). 3. Press space. Actual Results: File gets selected + it's executed (for lack of a better word). Expected Results: File gets selected and is not executed.
Space to activate is something that is provided in the Gtk widgets. Ctrl+space will do what you're looking for. I agree that space executing a program is strange, as space is often used to select without activating things. I'll poke around to see if I can find a way to change this default binding.
Still reproducible on Thunar 1.6.3.
Created attachment 6720 Disable the GTK+ default behavior GTK+ by default triggers the same event for RETURN and SPACE. This patch simply circumvents the space keypress in all icon views.
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In web browsers space is page down and shift-space is page up (also in evince). Can we consider this behaviour?
https://git.xfce.org/xfce/exo/tree/exo/exo-icon-view.c#n1307 Alternatively, it could be disabled or changed to something different in exo-icon-view.
Actually I dont like hard-coding stuff. There might be people which are used to "space" to activate things. IMO best would be a way to freely configure all thunar keybindings. (Ideally in a GUI which can be reused by other xfce applications)
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