Nautilus Hotkeys

Adds a few more hotkeys to Nautilus (GNOME Files) to improve the user experience:

• Switch tabs via Ctrl+Shift+Tab and Ctrl+Tab in addition to the existing Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown hotkeys
• Go one directory level up via Backspace in addition to the existing Alt+Up hotkey

Supports GNOME 43 and newer.

Acknowledgements

Parts of code written by @jesusferm, used with permission

Installation

1. Install Nautilus Python

• Fedora: dnf install nautilus-python
• Ubuntu family: apt install python3-nautilus
• Arch Linux: pacman -S python-nautilus
• openSUSE: zypper install python-nautilus
• Solus: eopkg install nautilus-python

2. Get NautilusHotkeys and install it

git clone https://github.com/Nindaleth/nautilus_hotkeys
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/nautilus-python/extensions/
ln -s $(pwd)/nautilus_hotkeys/NautilusHotkeys.py ~/.local/share/nautilus-python/extensions/

3. Restart Nautilus

killall nautilus