Ubuntu – How to change keyboard shortcuts in Nautilus 3.4

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I am using Nautilus 3.4 and xubuntu 12.04. I know in Nautilus 3.6 the keyboard shortcuts can be changed in ~/.config/nautilus/accels, however in 3.4 that file does not exist. Is there another file in version 3.4 that I can use to edit the keyboard shortcuts?

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I believe I've figured it out:

The keyboard shortcuts are in ~/.gnome/accels/nautilus.

The shortcuts appear like this:

; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ShellActions/TabsMoveRight" "<Primary><Shift>Page_Down")

To change a shortcut, modify the final quote section to the keyboard shortcut you want, and then remove the semicolon at the beginning. For example, if you wanted to change the above shortcut from Ctrl + Shift + Page-Down to Ctrl + Shift + Right, then change the above line to:

(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ShellActions/TabsMoveRight" "<Primary><Shift>Right")

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Open gconf-editor and set /desktop/gnome/interface/can_change_accels to true. This lets you edit menu shortcuts.
With Nautilus open, go to File menu, then Scripts, then hover over the Script you want to make a shortcut for.
Press the key combination you want to assign to this Script. You should see it appear on the menu.
Navigate off the menu and test it out.

You need to do this from the File menu of Nautilus...simply right-clicking in a Window to obtain the Scripts list does not allow adding shortcuts.

If you want to remove the shortcut, repeat steps 1 and 2, then press Backspace when your Script is highlighted on the menu. This should remove the shortcut.

Note: you might have to do a "nautilus -q" from Terminal before the gconf change takes effect.

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Grab Nemo (Linux Mint team forked nautilus 3.4, because they don't like what was changed in 3.6)

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sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install nemo

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