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When renaming a file pressing CTRL+LEFT makes the focus move to the left column of Files

Open BugFixesAndPerformanceImprovements opened this issue 1 month ago • 1 comments

What Happened?

When renaming a file, pressing CTRL+LEFT makes the focus of the window move to the left column of Files (bookmarks, storage, network, etc.) instead of jumping the cursor to the word on the left. Pressing CTRL+RIGHT seems to work fine.

See the video below where I first select the file to rename, press F2 and then press CTRL+RIGHT which works and then press CTRL+LEFT which switches the focus to the left column.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c78d2bfb-e352-4ea6-9962-a7bf6d3ee640

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Select a file to rename and press F2
  2. Press CTRL+LEFT and notice it switches the focus to the left column of Files

Expected Behavior

Pressing CTRL+LEFT should act like pressing CTRL+RIGHT while renaming a file and moving/jumping between words while renaming a file.

OS Version

8.x (Circe)

OS Architecture

amd64 (on most hardwares)

Session Type

Secure Session (Wayland, This is the default)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output


Hardware Info

No response

Need to stop Files intercepting this shortcut when the renaming.

jeremypw avatar Dec 07 '25 22:12 jeremypw