Thunar custom action keyboard shortcut doesn't work on the desktop

[riccivr]

I've been trying to make it work a keyboard shortcut for a custom action in the desktop, the keyboard shortcut works everywhere except the desktop, is there anything i'm missing out? I know thunar doesn't handle the desktop but xfdesktop does, and the weird thing is that when i right click anything inside the desktop the custom action is there and i can use it, however, the keyboard shortcut doesn't work.

side note: i didn't use xfconf-query to create the keyboard shortcut, i manually edit the accels.scm in ~/.config/Thunar/

[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/Xfce. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[riccivr (ricci-vr)]

I've been trying to make it work a keyboard shortcut for a custom action in the desktop, the keyboard shortcut works everywhere except the desktop, is there anything i'm missing out? I know thunar doesn't handle the desktop but xfdesktop does, and the weird thing is that when i right click anything inside the desktop the custom action is there and i can use it, however, the keyboard shortcut doesn't work.

side note: i use both available methods to create the keyboard shortcut, by manually edit the accels.scm in ~/.config/Thunar and also using xfconf-query, neither of them work on the desktop.

[riccivr (ricci-vr)]

Hey, thanks for taking your time to answer me, i follow your advice so here is the bug report

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11455

Thank you.

[Hjudt-l (hjudt-l)]

xfdesktop exposes custom shortcuts in the context menu, for which there are no shortcuts. Maybe xfdesktop can support custom actions with shortcuts, but at the moment it does not.

Anyway, this bug does not belong to thunar, therefore moving this to xfdesktop.

[gruberm (gruberm)]

I'd like to bring this up again. It would be more than nice to have consistant keyboard shortcuts on the desktop and inside Thunar. It's the little things that count or make things odd like this.
My programming skills are unfortunately almost non-existant, otherwise I'd create and submit a patch, but since the shortcut handling code is already inside Thunar it shouldn't be that much effort to integrate it also into xfdesktop(?). Correct me if I'm wrong.

[gruberm (gruberm)]

Another maybe even easier solution would be to determine if XF86Cut, XF86Copy and XF86Paste are defined and map them to the Cut, Copy and Paste commands.
Here are Gtk code examples in Firefox (support since 2011) and LibreOffice (support introduced in 2016):
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665406
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100443