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To scroll a single line in gnome-terminal you have to press Ctrl-Shift-↑ or Ctrl-Shift-↓ in Ubuntu.

In other distributions (e.g. Xubuntu) you only have to press Shift-↑ or Shift-↓ for the same behaviour. I would like to change the shortcuts in Ubuntu to work the same, but so far I haven't found an option or config file to change.

The reason why I would like to change this are two-fold: First, I find it more convenient (not having shift and ctrl above each other on a Thinkpad). Second, it is more consistent to the shortcuts for scrolling an entire page ( Shift-Pgup and Shift-Pgdown).

Also, I remember reading the reason behind using ctrl-shift instead of just shift, but I cannot locate that discussion anymore.

Flimm
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  • Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! *"the shortcuts in Ubuntu"* Do you mean you're looking for a single shortcut key to do single-line scrolling in *all* applications or just in the Ubuntu terminal application? – gertvdijk Jan 25 '13 at 16:44
  • I just meant the gnome-terminal in the Ubuntu distribution as opposed to how the gnome-terminal is set up in other distributions (even very similar ones like Xubuntu). – shiin Jan 25 '13 at 21:56

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According to https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-terminal/3.8/adv-keyboard-shortcuts.html.en, there are some shortcuts that cannot be edited in gnome-terminal. These are exactly: Ctrl+Shift+↑ and Ctrl+Shift+↓:

other keyboard shortcuts for gnome-terminal

In Xubuntu you can use Ctrl+↑ and Ctrl+↓ because Xubuntu uses xfce4-terminal which is different by gnome-terminal. The same happens with other distros.

Radu Rădeanu
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