Cycle tabs with Ctrl + Tab

The Ctrl + Tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab are common shortcuts for cycling tabs in other file manager and browsers, so it would be useful to have these shortcuts also in Thunar.

I was checking ~/.config/Thunar/accels.scm and see that we do have shortcuts assigned for it, but they aren't active.

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I was checking ~/.config/Thunar/accels.scm and see that we do have shortcuts assigned for it, but they aren't active.

What you mean by "they aren't active" ? For me cycling through tabs works well with CTRL+ Page Up/Down

Just putting <Primary>Tab does not work for some reason.

What you mean by "they aren't active" ? For me cycling through tabs works well with CTRL+ Page Up/Down

Quite strange, as I tried the shortcut yesterday and it didn't work, but now it is.

I was using Alt + 1 and Alt + 2 to switch between tabs yesterday, as those are the shortcuts I used sometimes in mousepad. I see that Ctrl + Tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab cycle through the toolbar controls.

It's possible to add Ctrl-Tab hotkeys with Autokey:

https://github.com/autokey/autokey/wiki

Add 2 scripts: "Thunar-Ctrl-Tab" and "Thunar-Ctrl-Shift-Tab".

Window Filter for them both: Thunar.Thunar

Thunar-Ctrl-Tab:

keyboard.send_keys("<ctrl>+<page_down>")

Thunar-Ctrl-Shift-Tab:

keyboard.send_keys("<ctrl>+<page_up>")

Can confirm <>Primary>Tab BackTab ISO_Left_Tab Don't Work, sounds like a bug but not in Thunar I don't think, though thats total guess work on my part (at this point)

changed milestone to %Xfce 4.18

assigned to @SKefalidis

mentioned in merge request !176 (merged)

mentioned in issue apps/mousepad#153 (closed)

Ops, forgot to close this one. Fixed by !176 (merged) thanks to @SKefalidis !

To be released in thunar 4.17.8

closed

marked #1486 (closed) as a duplicate of this issue

marked this issue as related to #1486 (closed)

mentioned in issue #1486 (closed)