[SOLVED] xfce4 application specific keyboard shortcuts

MikeDacre · 2014-01-27 21:55:15

Hi All,

I remember being able to directly change a menu shortcut with xfce, although I could be mis-remembering. I want to bind 'Send Now' in Thunderbird to Ctrl+Shift+d (or just Ctrl+D I guess), because that is what I am used to. I don't think I can do this in the xfce keyboard global keyboard shortcuts, those just launch apps from the command line, and I don't think I can use the window manager shortcuts either, although I may be wrong. I remember just highlighting a menu item and choosing a key combination, and that that just worked... but I can't find it anywhere now. Is it maybe a different window manager?

I am using xfce4 with xfwm4 4.10.1-1. I have compositing switched on. Let me know if there is any other info you need about my setup, I am honestly not sure which parts of the desktop environment/window manager/application settings/kernel (probably nothing to do with the kernel) are involved here, so I am not sure what info to give.

Thanks!

Last edited by MikeDacre (2014-01-28 03:25:42)

Wake · 2014-01-28 01:24:07

You'd have to know how to communicate with the Thunderbird API. Perhaps a little Python would do? If so, you could run that script from Keyboard|Application Shorcuts.

progandy · 2014-01-28 01:33:48

I guess you mean this: http://docs.xfce.org/faq#editable_menu_accelerators
I don't know if it works with thunderbird, though

MikeDacre · 2014-01-28 03:25:20

Yup, that's it: editable menu Appearance->Settings. Sadly it doesn't work in Thunderbird. Thanks though!

The solution in Thunderbird is the keyconfig extension. I found the help page at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyconfig_ext … hunderbird and figured out the solution:

1. Install keyconfig
2. Navigate to keyconfig Preferences
3. Click 'Add a new key' at the bottom left
4. Name the key anything, I chose 'key_send' as that is the name of the key
5. Replace /* CODE */ with goDoCommand("cmd_sendNow") and click 'OK'
6. Assign a hotkey and click 'Apply'
7. Restart Thunderbird
8. You're done!

That worked for me. Hopefully this helps someone else one day.

Arch Linux

#1 2014-01-27 21:55:15

[SOLVED] xfce4 application specific keyboard shortcuts

#2 2014-01-28 01:24:07

Re: [SOLVED] xfce4 application specific keyboard shortcuts

#3 2014-01-28 01:33:48

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