I love my keyboard shortcuts, and I sometimes I want to change them. If you’re ever in a gnome application and wanted to change *that one right there*, you can now live-edit them!
In a terminal, first enable this feature:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface can-change-accels true
Next, hover over the menu item shortcut that you want to change. Enter the shortcut you want. It should update immediately! I like to disable this live-editing, so that I don’t accidentally change any shortcuts. To do so run:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface can-change-accels false
Too bad firefox doesn’t support this. This is one more reason why native GTK apps make your entire experience blend together (consistent) and more magic!
Happy hacking!
James
PS: If you’re curious, I used this to change the gnome-terminal and gedit cycle tab left/right actions to instead respond to the thinkpad back/forward keys which are conveniently located right above the left and right arrow keys respectively.
Source: http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.3/change-keyboard-shortcuts.html.en
