Comments on: Nautilus

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:08:18 +0000

Posting this a little late I supposed, but with Ubuntu Hardy Heron, I can’t set any accelerators using the “Editable menu shortcuts” feature. It works for other programs such as gedit, but not nautilus. I’m assuming you all have the same problem.

By: Barf

Barf — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:18:14 +0000

Since Nautilus uses GTK you can disable/change the keyboard accelerators for any command; first enable editing with
System->Preferences->Appearance->Interface->Editable menu shortcuts
then open a Nautilus window, highlight a file, pull down Edit menu, move mouse to “Move to the deleted items folder” and hit the delete key. You’ve just removed the Ctrl-T binding.
My gripe with Nautilus is that it grabs both left and right buttons on the desktop (I mean the empty parts of the desktop). OK, I can put up with the crap menu that pops up with right-click, but why does it have to hog left-click which does nothing apart from unselect the icons on the desktop? I’d like to bind it to another menu, of course.

By: Scott Carpenter

Scott Carpenter — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:07:26 +0000

This CTRL+T shortcut is still active in Nautilus 2.18.1 and is very unfortunate. I have the same problem with Firefox mixups. Very hard to find information on it or other people that are bothered by this, and it’s disheartening to see this has been going on for years. Why would anyone want CTRL+T anyway when the delete key is right there.

By: Thiago

Thiago — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:49:47 +0000

Is there any fix to the ctrl+T issue yet?

By: Snam

Snam — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:58:17 +0000

Thnx! Now I know why my file dissappear when I hit Ctrl + T to open a new tab in Firefox, but nautilus got the focus.

By: Matijs van Zuijlen

Matijs van Zuijlen — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Sorry to disappoint you, but if you search the diff for T you’ll find the new code that sets the same accelerator through some other system. The changelog mentions “Initial port of views to GtkUIManager“, so I guess that’s what that other system is.

By: Matijs van Zuijlen

Matijs van Zuijlen — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Hm. That should be T there, not just T. That’ll teach me to actually look at the preview: “Don’t forget to look right before posting!”

By: sil

sil — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Matijs: Can I assume you were having a bit of trouble posting some code there? I’m working on fixing that…

By: Matijs van Zuijlen

Matijs van Zuijlen — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Heh. Yes. The second time the preview was fine, but the result wasn’t. It should be control T, with control between angled brackets.