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Shortcuts for Project Explorer navigation [message #756356]

Sat, 12 November 2011 11:09

rara

Messages: 2
Registered: November 2011

Junior Member

Hi all,

I just installed Eclipse from the ubuntu packages and can't use the familiar shortcuts for navigating the tree (right-arrow opens a subtree, left-arrow closes the subtree or goes to the parent folder etc.)
I also can't find the settings for these shortcuts in the preferences. Anybody knows how to adjust them?

Regards,
rara

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Re: Shortcuts for Project Explorer navigation [message #756391 is a reply to message #756356]

Sat, 12 November 2011 16:30

Michael Pellaton

Messages: 289
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi

The default Gnome/Ubuntu keyboard shortcuts interfere with the ones
of Eclipse. In order for all Eclipse shortcuts to work properly, you
need to disable/reassign most if the shortcuts in the Gnome/Ubuntu
settings.

HTH
Michael

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Re: Shortcuts for Project Explorer navigation [message #756392 is a reply to message #756391]

Sat, 12 November 2011 16:38

rara

Messages: 2
Registered: November 2011

Junior Member

Hi Michael,
thanks for your reply. I did not mention though that I use kubuntu with kde, not ubuntu with gnome. Anyway, I can't believe that a simple press of the arrow keys should interfere with any global desktop shortcuts.

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Re: Shortcuts for Project Explorer navigation [message #756440 is a reply to message #756392]

Sun, 13 November 2011 11:07

Thomas Schindl

Messages: 6651
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

The problem is that the native Gtk-Widget doesn't expand/collapse using
ARROWS because there the underlying control allows to have multiple
columns [1].

Could try SHIFT+ARROW like described here [2].

Tom

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2004-March/msg00223.html

[2]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4747264/is-it-possible-to-use-arrow-keys-alone-to-expand-tree-node-in-package-explorer-i

Am 12.11.11 17:39, schrieb rara:
> Hi Michael, thanks for your reply. I did not mention though that I use
> kubuntu with kde, not ubuntu with gnome. Anyway, I can't believe that a
> simple press of the arrow keys should interfere with any global desktop
> shortcuts.

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