In Gnome 3/Nautilus (in Fedora 17), the keyboard shortcut for moving a file to trash is ctrl + delete
. How do I change it to just delete
?
2 Answers
Kache’s solution worked once, I think, but that seems to have changed. What worked for me was to open ~/.config/nautilus/accels
, where the second line said ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/DirViewActions/Trash" "<Primary>Delete")
. The semicolon is a comment symbol; delete it and also remove the <Primary>
part. Finally make sure to really restart Nautilus. (Don’t forget about a possible second instance that you may have open on another workspace like I did.)
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I had to do something similar on a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04.3 to restore the delete key moving files to trash... Wow, what a regression. Commented Sep 22, 2017 at 14:37
In terminal:
mkdir ~/.gnome2/accels # without this directory, the change won't stick
Then:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface can-change-accels true
Alternatively:
Rundconf-editor
, navigate to org.gnome.desktop.interface and checkcan-change-accels
Open Nautilus, select any file, go to menu
Edit
, and highlightMove to Trash
.Hit
delete
to clear the old shortcut, and hitdelete
again to set it todelete
.Then in terminal:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface can-change-accels false
Alternatively:
Uncheckcan-change-accels
indconf-editor