Add keyboard bindings

[anasayubi]

Hello,
Thank you for this useful software. I've been using Mint for some time and I use this software at least every day!
I've actually been trying to replicate my vim environment everywhere as I go, especially the keyboard bindings. Is it possible to add customizations to keyboard shortcuts within the application?

Thanks

[cschreib]

You can change them by manually editing the ~/.config/xreader/accels file. Just locate the action you want to re-map, uncomment the line by removing the ;, and change the value of the keyboard shortcut. <Primary> is the Ctrl key, <Shift> is the Shift key.

For example I wanted to change "Find previous" from Ctrl+Shift+G to Shift+F3, so I changed the line:

; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/EditFindPrevious" "<Primary><Shift>g")

into:

(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/EditFindPrevious" "<Shift>F3")

After you have made the changes and saved the file, they will be applied to any new xreader window.

[wujastyk]

But even using the accels file, for example, to change GoNextPage & GoPreviousPage to Right and Left, respectively, these keystrokes (or the default ones) don't work if the display isn't showing Full Page. The minute you expand the display to, say, full width, the next and previous page keys don't work.

[alainpannetier]

The changes in ~/.config/xreader/accels are very short lived. A new version of the file is dumped each time Xreader is closed.
Ths dump should only happen if no existing file is detected.
In effect shortcuts are not customisable.

[nbuwe]

Latest Mint release and ~/.config/xreader/accels is still overwritten (if it exists) each time xreader runs.