GNOME 2.2 Desktop Accessibility Guide

To Navigate the Side Pane

The following table describes the keyboard shortcuts that enable you to navigate the file manager side pane in general.

Keys	Function
F6	Switch focus between the side pane and the view pane.
Shift+ F10	Open the side pane popup menu.
arrow keys	Give focus to the next or previous tab name.
spacebar	Display or hide the tab that has focus. The tab name remains in focus.
Tab	Move the focus from the tab name to the tab contents.

The following table describes the keyboard shortcuts that enable you to navigate the History tab in the side pane.

Keys	Function
arrow keys	Give focus to the next or previous file or folder in the history list.
spacebar	Open the file or folder that has focus in the history list.

For information about how to navigate the Notes tab of the file manager side pane, see To Navigate Text Boxes for information about how to navigate multi-line text boxes.

For information about how to navigate the Tree tab of the file manager side pane, see To Navigate Trees.