Comments on: GNOME 3 – Delete Key Not Deleting/Working in Nautilus

By: StevenKH

StevenKH — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:49:35 +0000

shame, but it does not work, for in Nautilus the menu-bar is not showing.

Right-click on the file and hovering over the option “move to trash” has no effect.

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By: ARWING

ARWING — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 22:45:17 +0000

Why do you want to change the shortcuts??. Gnome users are not lazy people, they like more and more complex ACTIVITIES. Gnome developers are so genius (they think in all POSSIBILITIES). In next years, the Ctrl+del will be change to Ctrl+CODE(seveen digits)+del where the robbers and my cat will not be able to delete any file of my system.

By: annoyed gnome user

annoyed gnome user — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:52:02 +0000

didn’t work for me neither with dconf nor with gconf…. => just another annoyance in gnome3, two different configuration backends… never know what to use!!

gnome3 is a bad product with good intentions, where the developer thought everbody is as stupid like their mom…

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:09:23 +0000

Thanks Truxton,

Hopefully someone else will find that useful if there isn’t a quicker way.

By: Truxton Spangler

Truxton Spangler — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:02:57 +0000

Since this was one of the first hits when i researched this problem i will share my specific solution. I use nautilus (3.2.1) but >don’t< run Gnome. I use lxde/openbox without gnome-settings-daemon which requires to edit/create a file to change the value of gtk-can-change-accels.

~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

I had to create the setting.ini file as well as the gtk-3.0 directory. In the file you put:

[Settings]
gtk-can-change-accels = 1

Save the file and restart your desktop session. Now you should be able to change the hotkey in the way it's described above (open up Nautilus…).

After you have changed the hotkey you have to edit the file again (to gtk-can-change-accels = 0) and restart your desktop session once more.

If someone has a better/faster solution let me know.

By: Dr.Death

Dr.Death — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:08:08 +0000

Thank you, this was very useful for me

By: Apokatos

Apokatos — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:49:16 +0000

This was the most disturbing gnome update ever people!
I just used a little timer to time some tasks i regularly do, between gnome 2.x and 3.x…
DISAPPOINTMENT!
TOTAL!
gnome 3 should return back to the drawing board.
It is a shame that it has become this monster.
I wonder how many gnome 3 developers envy mac users.
Is it the hipster developers that did it?
I bet they are all little arrogant selfish b’s.
KDE here I come.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:30:35 +0000

Jesus fucking christ i cant even delete a fucking file without jumping through flamming hoops. Gnome 3 is garbage, i dont have time for this shit. some of us have work to do, and god forbid the developers programmed this hot mess with productivity in mind.