How to set up backspace to go up instead of back in Thunar?

Question

I'd like pressing backspace to step one level up (outside) in a directory hierarchy instead of going to the previous opened location. How to configure this in Thunar?

Answer 1

You need to have editable keyboard accelerators turned on as documented under "How do I assign different keyboard shortcuts?" on this page*. Then hover over menu Go->Open Parent and press backspace twice.

That should add this line:

(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ThunarWindow/open-parent" "BackSpace")

to your ~/.config/Thunar/accels.scm

*This setting is also exposed in the Gnome Configuration Editor under...

desktop->gnome->interface->can_change_accels