Created attachment 2643 Thunar Patch: Backspace keyboard shortcut reassigned from 'Back' to 'Up Folder' Feature request: Backspace keyboard shortcut reassigned from 'Back' to 'Up Folder' This feature is designed to emulate traditional file browser behavior.
*** Bug 6600 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in b1599bc. You can do this with menu accelerators and setting the open-parent menu action as Backspace. There is code in the commit to make sure insensitive open-parent events do not result in back actions.