Tilix: Conflicting shortcuts

[ghost]

As terminix is an application with loads of shortcuts, some might get consumed by Terminix and not get forwarded into the app running. For example, this might be an issue with the nano editor. By default, you save a file by hitting CTRL + O. However, this shortcut is consumed by Terminix.

It would be super cool if Terminix had the ability to turn off conflicting shortcuts temporarily, according to the program running.

[gnunn1]

I don't think I can do any sort of automatic system, it would basically involve tracking all of the CLI programs out there and the shortcuts they use and then keep it up to date. I just don't see this as being very viable. Did you have an idea of how this would work that would be simpler to implement and maintain?

There is an enhancement request #223 already to allow shortcuts to be disabled temporarily but that would be via manual interface.

[ghost]

There could be like a list of the most common CLI programs such as cfdisk, Nano, midnight commander etc.

This list would'nt have to be comprehensive - but programs that are pretty much installed on every single Linux OS should work well by default, shouldn't they?

Another Option could be to have something like a "bypass Shortcut": this shortcut would deactivate all terminix shortcuts for, let's say, 3 seconds. In this time, the user can perform a keyboard shortcut that only the CLI application recieves.

[egmontkob]

I already had this in mind to report that Ctrl+O should be changed to Ctrl+Shift+O (it conflicts at least with nano and mc).

Ctrl+S is also troublesome, it is useful at least in mc (although Alt+S does there the same). Albeit here Ctrl+Shift+S is already taken, and Ctrl+S acts as scroll lock (a not really useful feature) most of the time.

However, I think there should be no Ctrl+letter shortcut defined by default..

[phw]

I agree with egmontkob, Ctrl+single letter is used quite commonly. Having shortcuts predefined which are likely not to conflict is IMHO the better solution than disabling shortcuts randomly according to some hard coded application list.

[gnunn1]

As per #187 if someone wants to go through and optimize the shortcuts I'm happy to accept a PR for it.

[apiraino]

Hello,

as an EMACS user I will never probably find a match with Gnome HIG shortcuts :-)
That's ok as long as I can easily custom tailor Terminix shortcuts and disable some of them.

In pull request #187 you mention /data/gsettings/com.gexperts.Terminix.gschema.xml as the file to change the defaults.
On my Lubuntu 16.04 I only have this other file /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.gexperts.Terminix.gschema.xml but changes I apply to that file apparently don't have any effect.

Which is the recommended way to change Terminix shortcuts? Namely, how to effectively set a shortcut to disabled? Please excuse me if this is mentioned somewhere (that I could'nt find); shortcut settings from Terminix seems to not have an apparent way to set to disabled.

Thanks,
Antonio

[gnunn1]

@apiraino There is a preferences dialog that allows you to customize shortcuts, just use that:

[gnunn1]

@apiraino Also if you are using Unity and can't find the Preferences dialog, see issue #241 in case that is causing the issue.

[apiraino]

@gnunn1 that's exactly what I was referring to by shortcut settings from Terminix seems to not have an apparent way to set to disabled. From that very dialog, I tried to set a shortcut to disabled to no avail, most likely my mistake ;-)
I double-click an entry, I'm asked to set the new accelerator but can't set to disabled.

[gnunn1]

@apiraino Click on the shortcut so it says New accelerator... and then hit backspace to set it to disabled.

[apiraino]

thanks @gnunn1 that did the trick.

[leoheck]

The default Ctrl-o should not be used by default. Please, use something different by default like Ctrl-Shift-o

[gnunn1]

Save and Open have been changed to Shift+Ctrl+S and Shift+Ctrl+O respectively, Save As shortcut is disabled by default.