Where does GIMP save keyboard shortcuts

Nils Larson

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Jun 7, 2005, 3:00:53 PM6/7/05

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Hi,

I'm about to reconfigure my GIMP with keyboard shortcuts I'm already
used to. Dynamic shortcuts are fine, but I can't change them, if a
letter is already dedicated to the normal windows-underlined-letter that
can be called in combination with the <ALT>-key. So e. g. it's
impossible to change the tool "Pen" to the shortcut "S" cause "S" is
already underlined for something else...

Is there a file on my hard disk where GIMP stores the shortcuts? I'll
try to edit them directly then.

thx in advance,

- Nils

stig

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Jun 7, 2005, 4:46:32 PM6/7/05

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Go into File->Preferences->Interface
Click the "Configure Keyboard Shortcurts" button and change it from there.

Nils Larson

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Jun 8, 2005, 1:43:36 PM6/8/05

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Nils Larson schrieb:

>
>>
>> Go into File->Preferences->Interface
>> Click the "Configure Keyboard Shortcurts" button and change it from
>> there.
>
>

> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry, but I can't find that menu item in my version (2.0.5). I also
> can't find anything like that in the whole preferences tree.
>
> - Nils

Addition:

I found the file "menurc" in the gimp user data directory. It seems to
be the file I was searching for. But changing shortcuts here doesn't
have any effect, even not after a restart.

- Nils

Nils Larson

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Jun 8, 2005, 1:41:51 PM6/8/05

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>
> Go into File->Preferences->Interface
> Click the "Configure Keyboard Shortcurts" button and change it from there.

Hi,

Dave Kelly

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Jun 8, 2005, 3:00:28 PM6/8/05

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Type in: locate menurc
and see if that will lead elsewhere.
Sometime there is more than one copy of a 'rc' file.

Neil Ellwood

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Jun 8, 2005, 4:20:49 PM6/8/05

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Nils Larson wrote:

>
> I'm sorry, but I can't find that menu item in my version (2.0.5). I
> also can't find anything like that in the whole preferences tree.
>
> - Nils

Not in my version (2.2.4) either.
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Joal Heagney

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Jun 8, 2005, 5:30:51 PM6/8/05

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Neil Ellwood wrote:
> Nils Larson wrote:
>
>
>>I'm sorry, but I can't find that menu item in my version (2.0.5). I
>>also can't find anything like that in the whole preferences tree.
>>
>>- Nils
>
> Not in my version (2.2.4) either.

You are clicking on the File Menu on the Toolbox, aren't you? The Menus
between the Toolbox and the Image are different, based on whether you
are doing something to an image (Hence there's no Save in the Toolbox
File menu) or to the whole application. (Hence there's no Preferences in
the Image File menu.)

Joal

Simon Budig

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Jun 8, 2005, 8:11:12 PM6/8/05

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Nils Larson <ne...@cschad.de> wrote:
> Nils Larson schrieb:
> >> Go into File->Preferences->Interface
> >> Click the "Configure Keyboard Shortcurts" button and change it from
> >> there.
> >

> > I'm sorry, but I can't find that menu item in my version (2.0.5). I also
> > can't find anything like that in the whole preferences tree.

Yes, that feature has been added for the 2.2 release of the Gimp. Please
consider upgrading.

> Addition:
>
> I found the file "menurc" in the gimp user data directory. It seems to
> be the file I was searching for. But changing shortcuts here doesn't
> have any effect, even not after a restart.

Most entries in this file are commented out with a semicolon at the
beginning of the line. To make this work you need to uncomment it.

Bye,
Simon
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Simon...@unix-ag.org http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/

Nils Larson

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Jun 9, 2005, 12:30:21 AM6/9/05

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Joal Heagney schrieb:

I clicked the right menu but may be my version 2.0 is too old, I'll
upgrade to 2.2

- Nils

Nils Larson

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Jun 9, 2005, 10:20:49 AM6/9/05

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Problem solved,

it works with version 2.2

thanx for the help,

- Nils