thunar: bind sendto action to shortcut key?

[Alexander Schwinn]

> then you migrate to an application aimed to be customized by users.

Thunar for sure has its quirks. Not beeing customizable for sure is not a problem of thunar.

If you take a try for the latest 4.17.x release, you will have the option to configure all  shortcuts as well in the preferences.

Cheers, Alex(xcons)

02.10.2022 13:06:19 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>:

> On Sun, 2022-10-02 at 11:25 +0200, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
>> I have created a "sendto" custom action for thunar [...]
>> I can call it with [right mouse button] -> "Send To" -> "fexmail"
>> 
>> (How) can I bind it to a shortcut key, e.g. [Ctrl] F ?
>> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> if you don't want to unsuccessfully run from pillar to post, as users
> has to do by
> 
> https://docs.xfce.org/4.16/faq#how_to_configure_shortcutshotkeysmenu_accelerators
> 
> https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/1.4/faq
> 
> then you migrate to an application aimed to be customized by users. Even
> better is to use such apps in the first place. For a file manager I
> recommend http://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/ . Among other nice
> features SpaceFM provides a top bar menu named "Tools", which allows the
> user to do way more than what you want to do, but you can use it for
> your purpose, too. It continues to work in the same way after migrating
> from one to another GTK major version, since the app is aimed for
> customisation.
> 
> IOW if somebody should explain you how to change the keybindings for
> your current version of Thunar, you already know that it will change
> again and again in the future, hence better migrate today.
> 
> Look and feel of SpaceFM is more or less equal to Thunar and similar
> file managers, while e.g. the Rodent file manager is completely
> different. IOW when migrating to SpaceFM, you don't need to get used to
> something completely new.
> 
> Disclaimer: I prefer using command line over a file manager, but
> occasionally I'm using SpaceFM, due to the "Tools" I added and allocated
> to a key shortcut.
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 
> 
> 
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