Custom keyboard shortcuts in gedit

Question

Since I spend a lot of time on my laptop, I've gotten used to using keyboard shortcuts for everything. I want to be able to switch from tab to tab of opened documents in gedit by pressing Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab. Are there config files I can edit or something else I can do to enable this functionality?

Alternatively, can anyone post a lits of keyboard shortcuts in gedit?

Answer 1

There used to be an option to enable editable menu accelerators for GNOME apps. The GNOME team removed the GUI for this, but at least under GNOME 2 it was still available via gconf. Recent Ubuntu versions use GNOME 3; I'm not sure of whether that still works (since GNOME 3 has migrated to dconf). I tried it in the old gconf-editor, and setting the option /org/gnome/desktop/interface/can-change-accels using dconf-editor, but it doesn't seem to work in Gedit (v3.4 on Precise).

According to Where to configure shortcut keys of Nautilus?, it doesn't work with Unity's global menu. You could load a different desktop environment and make the change there (if it works).

It may still be possible to edit the keyboard shortcuts by editing configuration files. According to a commenter on the (very outdated) Gedit shortcuts documentation page:

You don't really need a plugin to change keyboard shortcuts. This (also) works:

~/.config/gedit/accels:

; gedit GtkAccelMap rc-file         -*- scheme -*-
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GeditWindowActions/DocumentsPreviousDocument"

"Page_Up") (gtk_accel_path "/GeditWindowActions/DocumentsNextDocument" "Page_Down") (gtk_accel_path "/GeditWindowActions/SearchFindPrevious" "F3") (gtk_accel_path "/GeditWindowActions/SearchFindNext" "F3")

~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css:

@binding-set unbind-ctrl-d {
        unbind "<ctrl>d";
        unbind "<shift>F10";
        unbind "<ctrl>Page_Up";
        unbind "<ctrl>Page_Down";
}
GtkTreeView { gtk-key-bindings: unbind-ctrl-d; }
GtkTextView { gtk-key-bindings: unbind-ctrl-d; }

According to one commenter, Ctrl-Tab is hardcoded and cannot be rebound easily, but there is a plugin that purports to do this. To install the plugin, see How do I install a plugin for gEdit v3?.

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If you're unable to get it to work, you could use a different editor that lets you edit shortcuts, such as KDE's Kate.

The list of default keyboard shortcuts in Gedit is available in the manual. Click "Help" > "Contents" > "Shortcut keys" in Gedit to access it.

Answer 2

For Ubuntu 12.04 and up:

Use dconf-editor instead of gconf-editor

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Then set dconf>org>gnome>desktop>interface>can-change-accels to true

Setting shortcuts when using global menu (which is the case in Unity):

1. Open evince (or any app) with UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 evince
2. Browse menus, hover an entry, type your shortcut