I did.

I put a # before the existing ones and have it set as follows

KEY_BACKSPACE=toggle hidden

It shows success for every other command but that one however. I'm not
sure if it's a distro issue with Solus however though but once i'm back
on my Arch box I can test it there though

On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 05:22:41PM +0200, Linux for blind general discussion 
wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> Strange i don't see this here.  Here it shows/ hides the folder / files as 
> expected.
> 
> Did you rebind your keys already to something?
> 
> 
> 
> > Am 10.04.2022 um 16:37 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion 
> > <blinux-list@redhat.com>:
> > 
> > I've got it saying toggle hidden, but none of the hidden files showed up
> > even after setting it right.
> > 
> > I made a .test.txt fie in ~/Documents and hit toggle hidden, with no
> > luck. The .test.txt doesn't show up nor do places like .config.
> > 
> > Is that a Solus issue? I'm only running into this as my one big issue
> > with DragonFM. I unbound Backspace from history and put it on show
> > hidden instead so I can ctrl+H for hidden toggle
> > 
> >> On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 03:40:23PM +0200, Linux for blind general 
> >> discussion wrote:
> >> Howdy,
> >> 
> >> A small tip for figure sequences for shortcuts. You can set input=True in 
> >> debug section of the settings file. Any keypress prints its escape 
> >> sequence ( and if it triggers an action)  will then printed for a given 
> >> amount of time in the first line on screen.
> >> Its very noisy for you but just thought for debug and figure sequences. 
> >> You can disable it then again.
> >> 
> >> By the way, i forgot to answer how to unbind an action: just comment the 
> >> line in settings file out wit an # as first character per line. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>>> Am 10.04.2022 um 14:57 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion 
> >>>> <blinux-list@redhat.com>:
> >>> 
> >>> Howdy,
> >>> 
> >>> Well, you can try, but i don’t  think there is an escape sequence for 
> >>> ctrl + backspace.  I don’t think there is any escape sequence for 
> >>> modifier key + backspace  combination available.
> >>> 
> >>> I have to say, this concept is an dinosaur that should be rethought in 
> >>> the 21 century. 
> >>> 
> >>> Cheers chrys
> >>> 
> >>>> Am 10.04.2022 um 14:29 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion 
> >>>> <blinux-list@redhat.com>:
> >>>> 
> >>>> So wouldd^and then backspace change that to ctrl+backspace change that
> >>>> so control and backspace works for that and ctrl+h does hidden files or?
> >>>> Or do I need to do something like '' to tell DragonFM that there's no
> >>>> key bound for that function or do I just leave that blank? I can
> >>>> probably find something to rebind it to but I'm thinking just unbindd
> >>>> the backspace key?
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>>>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 02:15:55PM +0200, Linux for blind general 
> >>>>>> discussion wrote:
> >>>>> Howdy,
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Well to explain what you see, you need to understand how shortcuts on 
> >>>>> an command line application work.
> >>>>> The commandline reads any input from STDIN. This is also valid for 
> >>>>> shortcuts. The operating system translates some (not all, depending on 
> >>>>> terminal capabilities) input to a sequence of ascii codes. This 
> >>>>> sequences are sent to STDIN then.This series starts with an special 
> >>>>> ascii character, the Escape code. This is why this sequences are named 
> >>>>> escape sequences. How many escape sequences are „translated“ or 
> >>>>> „understand“ depends on the used terminal standard (TTY uses as far as 
> >>>>> i know VT100 standard, correct me if i m wrong, terminal emulators can 
> >>>>> often emulate various kind of standards, depending on the emulator and 
> >>>>> configuration).
> >>>>> The issue you see here is the fact that some of the escape  sequences 
> >>>>> do not have a printable representation. For this there are various 
> >>>>> cases where printable sequences defined for the non printable 
> >>>>> representation. Long thing short: in your case, Ctrl + h is the 
> >>>>> printable ascii representation of backspace. So an command line 
> >>>>> application can not mate a difference between ctrl + h and backspace at 
> >>>>> all ( so its a limitation of the deeper level of terminal and operating 
> >>>>> system, not an issue of dragonFM)
> >>>>> You can see this in plain bash, vim or nano as well (and any oder 
> >>>>> commandline application)l, type something, press ctrl + h, it behaves 
> >>>>> like backspace and will delete the character left to the cursor.
> >>>>> See here for a list of (some?) of those „duplicates“. 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.bpxa400/ks1.htm
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> But like noted, this depends heavily on the Terminal.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Sorry my friend, there is not much i can do here.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> What can we do now?
> >>>>> Well, all we can do is choosing what is more important for you and 
> >>>>> rebind backspace „KEY_BACKSPACE“ (what is currently bound to leave 
> >>>>> entry, wo moves to parent folder) to toggle hidden (and unbind or 
> >>>>> rebind leave entry then ) or use another shortcut for hidden.
> >>>>> See here in settings:
> >>>>> KEY_BACKSPACE=leave_entry
> >>>>> …
> >>>>> ^[H=toggle_hidden
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Cheers chrys
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>>> Am 10.04.2022 um 11:52 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion 
> >>>>>>> <blinux-list@redhat.com>:
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> So quick question Chrys...
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> I'm trying to have history switched to ctrl+H on my copy of Dragonfm, 
> >>>>>> to
> >>>>>> line up more with how Nautilus/Caja does it. However that shortcut 
> >>>>>> seems
> >>>>>> hardcoded in with no way to change it in the config file. I'm trying to
> >>>>>> fix it since alt+H brings up a terminal's help menu and I'd like ctrl+H
> >>>>>> to show/hide hidden files since that's a common enough shortcut on
> >>>>>> desktop file managers so why not have it in DragonFM?
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> So where do I need to look to switch the function of ctrl+H in the
> >>>>>> program? Currently it brings up the location bar, page 1/2 and doesn't
> >>>>>> show or hide hidden folders, instead going back one step despite not
> >>>>>> being defined as such in the config settings
> >>>>>> 
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