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d33p_th0ught

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Registered: 2014-11-07

Posts: 14

Backspace for moving back in nautilus not working

I am used to having the Backspace button change to the previous folder in nautilus.
I managed to do that by changing the line (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ShellActions/Up" "BackSpace") in the file .config/nautilus/accels.
However since gnome 1.6 this doesn't seem to work anymore. Any ideas?

johnpatcher

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Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 71

Re: Backspace for moving back in nautilus not working

I guess you're out of luck, as described in this bug report [1]:

The (mis)use of Backspace for 'Go back' in file browsers goes back to old Windows Explorer versions. Nautilus was doing the same in the past, but we've stopped doing it since Backspace somewhat too close to Delete.

You probably want to get used to the "Alt" + "Left cursor" shortcut (or have to patch around in the source code of Nautilus).

[1]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746378

d33p_th0ught

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Registered: 2014-11-07

Posts: 14

Re: Backspace for moving back in nautilus not working

Damn, why would one forbid the customization of shortcuts?
Anyway, thanks for the info.