Keyboard Shortcuts

[John Ralls]

> On Dec 25, 2014, at 7:30 AM, By JoVe <jove98 at me.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> with GnuCash 2.6.xx you may not have any success in assigning keyboard shortcuts („accelerators“ in GTK parlance).
> Somewhere between 2.4.13 and 2.6.3 the ability for Mac OS X to assign keyboard shortcuts for menu entries and them to percolate into GnuCash vanished.
> I am running 2.4.13 most of the time for that reason, since I just hate to have to use the mouse (or trackpad) to switch views from one-line to full and vice versa. In 2.4.13 I can assign shortcuts, eg. apple-1, apple-2,… by the OS system control keyboard preference pane.
> 
> Cheers (and a merry Xmas)

I had to turn that off so that when you pasted into a dialog box the text actually went into the dialog box instead of to the window behind it.

To modify accelerator keys -- which apply only to menu items -- you can, when GnuCash is not running, edit the file ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/accelerator-map. You can use TextEdit, just be sure to tell it to save the result as plain text. It's a Scheme file, so a ';' starts a comment. Notice that most lines have an empty string (" ") at the end; that's where the accelerator code goes. <Primary> means "Command" on Macs and "Control" everywhere else. Otherwise, <Shift> means shift, <Ctrl> means control, <Alt> means alt/option, and <Meta> means command. You can combine them; if you want to use shift-command-x for an accelerator, put <Shift><Meta>x in the accelerator field of the menu action you want to accelerate and remove the ';' from the beginning of the line.

Bindings can also be configured, but doing so is a bit more involved and requires some understanding of Gtk. If you really want to do that, search the web for "Gtk key bindings" and study the results.

Regards,
John Ralls