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Dylan Kinnett
Asked: 2019-03-13 07:00:51 +0800 CST

How to Change Evolution's Keyboard Shortcuts?

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How can I change the keyboard shortcuts in Evolution 3.32.0, running on Ubuntu 18.04? I haven't been able to change shortcuts for things like "archive message" and others.

Here's what I've tried so far, unsuccessfully

  1. Search the manual at https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/
  2. edit the ~/.config/evolution/accels file while Evolution is not running
  3. in dconf editor, set can-change-accels to true, hover over command, type new shortcut
  4. Reviewed related questions on askubuntu and others
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  1. Best Answer

    This is what worked for me using Evolution 3.22.0, on Ubuntu 18.04, with gtk 3.22

    It is important to do every one of these steps, in order, because, Evolution can quickly overwrite the keyboard shortcuts to default, when it opens or when it closes.

    1. Make sure that Evolution is not running.
    2. Open the file ~/.config/evolution/accels with a text editor
    3. Find the line for the command you want to edit, for example Reply to All which looks like:
      ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/mail/mail-reply-all" "<Primary><Shift>r").
      Here the spaces are only for indentation, but the semicolon at the beginning of the line comments-out the line.
    4. Remove the semicolon and make your change so that line might look now like, for example, (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/mail/mail-reply-all" "<Super>r").
    5. Make sure you save, and then close the file in your text editor.
    6. Now, re-open Evolution and you should see that the keyboard shortcut for Message->Reply to All has changed.

    Special thanks to the members of the evolution-list support mailing list who helped me learn this.

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