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The fraction shortcut is not working.

Any change in my file KeyEventTranslations.tr in my directory /usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/10.3/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/TextResources/X gets ignored.

How to (possibly) reproduce it:

  1. Go to 

    FileNameJoin[
  {$InstallationDirectory, 
   "/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/TextResources/X/KeyEventTranslations.tr"}]

  2. Do ANY change and save the file. For example: Make a " in the beginning of the file or change

    Item[KeyEvent["Up"], "MovePreviousLine"], 
Item[KeyEvent["KP_Up"], "MovePreviousLine"], 
Item[KeyEvent["Down"], "MoveNextLine"], 
Item[KeyEvent["KP_Down"], "MoveNextLine"],

    to

    Item[KeyEvent["Up"], "MoveNextLine"], 
Item[KeyEvent["KP_Up"], "MoveNextLine"], 
Item[KeyEvent["Down"], "MovePreviousLine"], 
Item[KeyEvent["KP_Down"], "MovePreviousLine"],

  3. Open Mathematica 10.3 and see if anything changed.

  4. In my case nothing changes. There is no reaction to any change I do.

I'm using Mathematica 10.3 on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS and this file of KeyEventTranslations.tr is the only one on my harddrive.

How can that be and what can I do to make it work?

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  • If it helps, I'm happy to provide you with further information. – ungerade Dec 04 '15 at 13:19
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    Without further information nobody will be able to answer this. Also, changes to this file definitely have an effect and are not ignored. – sebhofer Dec 04 '15 at 13:27
  • @sebhofer What further information do you need? – ungerade Dec 04 '15 at 16:45
  • @Karsten7. Mathematica does not react to any change. I for example changed the enter with the up arrow and everything stayed as it was. It is not a question about how to change something but a question about why everything I change gets ignored. There is something fishy going on and I have no clue how to find out what exactly it is. – ungerade Dec 04 '15 at 16:48
  • @Karsten7. Yes this file. And it is unimportant what change I make. Every change gets ignored. – ungerade Dec 04 '15 at 17:29
  • This answer might provide an useful alternative. – Karsten7 Dec 04 '15 at 17:58
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    @sebhofer I can confirm issue. Here is a workaround http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/1606/how-make-addmenucommands-work-in-an-init-m – William Dec 04 '15 at 18:17
  • Did you try to make any other changes than to the "Up"/"Down"keys? I highly doubt that you claim that Mathematica does not react to any change is correct. I certainly know you can customize the keybindings, also in version 10.3. I can confirm the issue with the cursor keys though. – sebhofer Dec 04 '15 at 18:32
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    I can confirm the issue: from 10.3 on, the custom shortcuts in KeyEventTranslations.tr are not taken into account. It was OK up to v 10.1 I think... – coussin Feb 19 '16 at 09:16

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I found a fix that worked in my case:

  1. Open MenuSetup.tr (in my case, on Linux, it was in /usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/10.3/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/TextResources/X/MenuSetup.tr)

  2. Change

MenuItem["&Fraction", "Fraction", MenuKey["/", Modifiers->{"Control"}]],

to (add ,"Shift")

MenuItem["&Fraction", "Fraction", MenuKey["/", Modifiers->{"Control","Shift"}]],

  1. Restart Mathematica
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