Ubuntu – Customize nemo keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu 13.04

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I'm on Ubuntu 13.04 and ran through the steps outlined on Completely integrate nemo in Ubuntu.

I understand that Nemo is a cloned-fork off of Nautilus and was hoping that I'd be able to adjust the keyboard shortcuts for it in the same way… For Nautilus we can edit the "accels" file at ~/.config/nautilus/accels.

Does Nemo not have this ability?

The version of Nemo on my system is 1.8.2.

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Anand Sharma answer (after I edited his question):

The "accels" file for Nemo when installed with the method linked to above is located at: ~/.gnome2/accels/nemo. The two files, ~/.config/nautilus/accels and ~/.gnome2/accels/nemo are very close to the same.

The reason why I desperately wanted to find how to edit keyboard-shortcuts was cause I HATE the default for focusing on the location-bar which is Ctrl + L. Practically every other application you can think of (e.g. Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox... list goes on) that has an "address bar" places focus there using the Alt+D combination.

Editing the following line in either of the "accel" files did the trick for me (make sure you remove the semi-colon, too):

From:
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ShellActions/Edit Location" "<Primary>L")
To:
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ShellActions/Edit Location" "<Alt>d")

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Ctrl + Alt + T

gksudo nemo

Enter password
Done!

If you are too lazy leave terminal open and just use Up/Down buttons to select command and Enter to shoot it!

Ubuntu – How to Create A Startup Script for Keyboard LED

Open the terminal, enter sudo -s to get root-access. Now enter nano /etc/rc.local, now edit the file so it looks like this:

!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

xset led 3
exit 0

Now save with Ctrl + O, press enter and then Ctrl + X to exit.

Let's set the proper permissions using:

sudo chown root /etc/rc.local
sudo chmod 755 /etc/rc.local

Make sure everything works fine using:

sudo /etc/init.d/rc.local start

And now reboot.

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