Mac OS accelerator keys

[Deva -]

Hello,

I am running Gnucash v2.6.6 on Mac OS Sierra.

This is in response to an earlier post clarifying how to setup keyboard access to frequently performed functions by Christopher Lam (see below). I couldn’t find a way to respond to that specific thread from my daily digest mail, hence this.

I presume that post was about a windows fix. On my Mac, I found a similar file called osx_accel_map under /Applications/Gnucash/Contents/Resources/share/gnucash/ui.

I edited the file (after making a backup of the original file) for the 2 lines mentioned in the earlier post, but instead of "<Primary>j" and "<Primary>l”, I changed it to “<Meta>j” and “<Meta>l” based on other such entries in the file.

I restarted gnucash after these edits, but these accelerator keys don’t seem to work on an open register. I tried pressing both <CTRL> as well as <COMMAND> for the <Meta> key, but with no effect - nothing happens.

Can you please let me know how I can set this up for a Mac?

Cheers,
Deva

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From: Christopher Lam [mailto:christopher.lck at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 9, 2017 3:49 AM
To: Drew H. <drew29 at outlook.com<mailto:drew29 at outlook.com>>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org<mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: Add icon for "Get Transactions..."

Ah but there exists mechanism to add keyboard shortcuts.Edit your .gnucash/accelerator-map and maybe you'll find appropriate entry.
I've added Ctrl-J for Jump as Ctrl-L for Split as follows:

(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/JumpTransactionAction" "<Primary>j")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/SplitTransactionAction" "<Primary>l”)

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