I am using Xubuntu and I am looking for a way to bind the backspace key with navigating to the parent directory of the current directory.
I read in the Thunar documentation FAQ (at the bottom) that Thunar shortcuts are standard GTK+ keyboard shortcuts, meaning that there are two ways of setting a keyboard shortcut for "open parent":
- Hovering over the open parent menu option with the mouse pointer and pressing the keyboard shortcut (after enabling the Editable menu accelerators option in settings)
- Editing $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/Thunar/accels.scm
The first method didn't work because pressing backspace removes any keyboard shortcut assigned to the option instead of assigning backspace to the option.
The second also didn't work but I don't know why. Perhaps the backspace key should be written differently. This is how I tried it:
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ThunarWindow/open-parent" "<Backspace>")
