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- Editable Menu Accelerators

Frequently Asked Questions

Editable Menu Accelerators

A number of Xfce applications (Xfce Terminal and Thunar for example) support the standard GTK+ way of changing shortcuts: simply hover over the menu option with the mouse pointer and press the keyboard shortcut you want to rebind it to.

To delete a keyboard assignment, press the Backspace key while you are on the menu entry.

If the shortcut doesn't change, then you need to enable the feature in GTK+. This can be achieved in 3 ways:

If you are running the Xfce desktop environment, enable Editable menu accelerators in the User Interface Preferences dialog.
If you are running GNOME then you can enable Editable menu accelerators in the Menu and Toolbars control center dialog.
Otherwise put the following in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file (create the file if it doesn't exist):
gtk-can-change-accels=1

When xfsettingsd is running you must change the setting with the Xfce GUI, not through the .gtkrc-2.0 file.

In the case of Xfce4-terminal, you have to open 9 tabs to edit all the Alt+N entries.

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