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[By JoVe]

Thanx for the explanation.

Is that a GTK bug or Apple’s and does the culprit know?

BTW: is there a reasonable way to find out, which of the slightly obfuscated entries in the accelerator map, 
such as 

; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuAdditions/47f45d7d6d57b68518481c1fc8d4e4baAction" „")

corresponds to which human readable menu entry? The entries to modify the view of the transactions are of particular interest to me, but it might be a general point of interest.

Cheers (and a happy new year)
Joachim Wetzig

Am 26.12.2014 um 19:59 schrieb John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>:

> 
>> 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
>