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Hi,
I'm using Document Viewer 2.32 (Evince) under Ubuntu 10.10 and my shortcut for the "Rotate Right" option used to be Ctrl + Right. It worked ok since a few days ago, now appears this shortcut is backspace. I've tried to reinstall Evince packages but this doesn't work. Since this is really annoying I would like to know how to change this program "Rotate Right" shortcut back to Ctrl + Right.
Thank you in advance!

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's follow-up shows the quick, built‑in fix: point the mouse at the menu entry and press the key combo you want (press Backspace to clear a binding). This is the standard GTK “editable menu accelerators” behavior used by many GNOME/Xfce apps. (docs.xfce.org)

To make a change persistent (or to fix it by hand) Evince keeps a per‑user accelerators file. Close Evince, edit the file at ~/.config/evince/accels and either uncomment or add the appropriate (gtk_accel_path "...Action..." "<Primary>Right") line (use <Primary> for Ctrl, <Alt>, etc.). Save and restart Evince. Inspect the file first to find the exact action name Evince uses. (askubuntu.com)

If hovering + keypress does nothing, the editable‑accelerators feature may be disabled by the desktop. On older GNOME enable it with gconf (or gconftool-2), for example:

gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/interface/can_change_accels --type bool true

newer GNOME exposes the same setting via gsettings:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface can-change-accels true

Note that the gtk-can-change-accels setting was deprecated in GTK3 and may be ignored by modern toolkits. (askubuntu.com)

A final caveat: Unity’s global/appmenu can prevent per‑app edits. Running the app with the menu proxy disabled forces menus into the window (for example env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= evince) so you can edit accelerators there. After making changes, disable the “can change accels” flag again to avoid accidental rebindings. (askubuntu.com)

Troubleshooting checklist: confirm the app was closed when you edited ~/.config/evince/accels, search that file for matching action names, restart the app (or the session) after changing gconf/gsettings, and use Backspace over a menu item to remove unwanted bindings if needed. (askubuntu.com)

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Hi,
I'm using Document Viewer 2.32 (Evince) under Ubuntu 10.10 and my shortcut for the "Rotate Right" option used to be Ctrl + Right. It worked ok since a few days ago, now appears this shortcut is backspace. I've tried to reinstall Evince packages but this doesn't work. Since this is really annoying I would like to know how to change this program "Rotate Right" shortcut back to Ctrl + Right.
Thank you in advance!

Hi I've just solved it thanks to .
I've just put the mouse over the Rotate Righ action in Edit menu and pressed Ctrl+Right to restore it to its original settings.

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