HowTo Customize keyboard shortcuts

Nixnote comes with a default set of shortcuts. If you are happy with those then you don't need to do a thing.

If you want to customize your shortcuts then you need to do a little work.

You should have a /usr/share/nixnote2/shortcuts.txt file. Note: if you use AppImage version, you need to unpack it first, to get the contents

• e.g. ./NixNote2.AppImage --appimage-extract - see: https://github.com/robert7/nixnote2/wiki/HowTo---Run-AppImage-without-FUSE

Copy this to shortcuts.txt in your Nixnote config directory (see menu Help/Data and log location info). This is the file that is read, when Nixnote starts. Any changes to this file only happen at startup so if you change it you need to restart the program to see those changes.

This file has three main columns.

The first column is the menu item you are wanting to trigger with the shortcut. For example, File_Note_Add is the shortcut to add a note and Tools_Connect is the shortcut under the tools menu to connect.

The second column is the shortcut sequence. For example, "Ctrl+N" or "F10" or "Ctrl+Shift+F12".

The remainder of the line is comments and comments should begin with // characters. Spaces or tabs are treated as delimiters.

When editing the file, you must have at least the first column (i.e. File_Note_Add). If you do not put anything else on that line or if you just have comments on the rest of the line you will be removing that shortcut. For example, a line like this will cause the shortcut to add a note to be removed.

File_Note_Add // Remove that shortcut

If you want to change a shortcut, then put the shortcut sequence. For example, this line would change the note add shortcut to Ctrl+W

File_Note_Add Ctrl+W // Add shortcut

If you choose a shortcut key sequence that already exists in the it will remove that default shortcut and assign it to your custom shortcut. If you put the same shortcut twice or the same action twice with two different shortcuts, the last one will be the one used.

In your shortcuts.txt you only need to put the shortcuts you want changed. Any action not in that file will use the default shortcut (or will use the default of no shortcut). It doesn't hurt to use the complete sample shortcut file, but I'd recommend only having the shortcuts you want changed in shortcuts.txt. It will probably make it easier in the long run for you to support if I add other shortcuts later.