Feature request: Right/Left advance/detract pages like most pdf readers

[averyfreeman]

 * Xreader version 2.6.4
 * Distribution - Fedora fc33.x86_64

This is not a bug report. Feel free to ignore it, as I am sure you are busy.

Issue
Right/left arrow keys do not advance to next/prev page like behavior in most pdf viewers, requiring my most hated activity: reading of directions.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open pdf
2. Want to move to next page
3. Press right arrow key
4. notice nothing's happening
5. look up the docs for xreader
6. notice that it uses ctrl-pgdn/ctrl-pgup instead
7. install evince in avoidance of accessing mental functions

Expected behaviour
Right/Left to advance/detract page

Other information
This is a feature request. I'd love to use x Reader, as I love pretty much everything about Cinnamon, but I cannot abide such blatant disregard of non-explicit, unplanned, defacto standardization.

Cinnamon is greatly appreciated by us mindless creatures of habit because it's basically just like a better version of Windows. I try what I need and it responds how I expect, and that makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

Like hot coco on a cold winter morning, chicken soup when you're sick, getting wasted on mixed flavors of alcohol you stole from your parents and puking all over the dance floor the night of your HS prom. Some things should just be like they always have been.

Therefore, I implore you modify xReader to behave more closely to Adobe Reader, otherwise you risk confusing people like me with short attention spans and long muscle memory.

Other than that, keep up the good work!

[scytho]

+1!

(Oh Github, remove that device verification …)

[wujastyk]

+1
or, more generically, allow keystroke shortcuts to be user-defined.

[scytho]

I am afraid we may as well wish for us to grow telekinetic powers, or so …
#466

[rgreen5]

+1 to the request. Or at least an easy way to change shortcut preferences.

[scytho]

I have a feeling that there is no actual reason for such a thing.

PS: I just remembered having changed shortcuts in xreader, albeit not the ones you want changed. I think I edited ~/.config/xreader/accels, but if I change the keys n and p to Right and Left, it has no effect, and xreader restores the previous values n and p.

PPS: I forgot to uncomment those lines. Oddly, xreader reacted to n and p anyway. After uncommenting the lines, xreader didn’t overwrite the values, but didn’t react to n/p or Right/Left. After changing the keys to n and p again, xreader reacted to n and p again, but commented the two lines. After uncommenting the keys gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/GoNextPage" and gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/GoPreviousPage", using Right and Left only works when the Zoom is set for a page to fit inside the window’s height. I think this is what wujastyk has reported in November. I would consider this a bug.

[wujastyk]

@scytho yes, I did. When the page is bigger than fitting in a window, key behaviour changes (or appears to change).

I often find that my attempts to page through a document end up rotating the pages on the screen, because my years-old muscle-memory was trained on other programs.

[tcubano]

Up! Yes, this drives me mad. It's always strange whenever I need to use xreader and the left/right arrows don't work as habit from all the other pdf readers I've ever used. ctrl+pg up/down is not a viable solution.

[SkullHex2]

Up, this should really be implemented

[jerkey]

it's really telling that there has been no progress on this issue, just searching for "key" in issues shows that many people have come to point out the obvious. I honestly wonder what's going on with the maintainers

[SkullHex2]

it's really telling that there has been no progress on this issue, just searching for "key" in issues shows that many people have come to point out the obvious. I honestly wonder what's going on with the maintainers

Completely normal. They wait for the issue to go stale, hoping in the meantime that an update has (slightly) changed the steps to reproduce. Then they'll close the issue (even if it's still there, but the steps to reproduce don't apply anymore, so 🤷‍♂️), and if you try to say anything they'll lock it to contributors only.