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Add new keyboard shortcut
Edit keyboard shortcut

Add new keyboard shortcut

Tools > Preferences... > Advanced > Shortcuts > Keyboard setup > [SELECT] Copy of Opera Standard (If you don't have Copy of Opera Standard then [SELECT] Opera Standard > Duplicate) > Edit... > [SELECT] Section (example: Application) > New... > Enter shortcut in Input context and shortcuts field and action in Actions field

Opera duplicate keyboard setup
Duplicate "Opera Standard" keyboard setup

Opera edit keyboard setup
Edit "Copy of Opera Standard" keyboard setup

Opera new keyboard shortcut
New keyboard shortcut in "Application" section

Opera new keyboard shortcut input context and shortcut
New keyboard shortcut input context and shortcut

Opera new keyboard shortcut action
New keyboard shortcut action

Edit keyboard shortcut

Tools > Preferences... > Advanced > Shortcuts > Keyboard setup > [SELECT] Copy of Opera Standard (If you don't have Copy of Opera Standard then [SELECT] Opera Standard > Duplicate) > Edit... > [SELECT] Section (example: Application) > Edit... > Change shortcut in Input context and shortcuts field and action in Actions field

Opera edit keyboard shortcut
Edit keyboard shortcut

Opera edit keyboard shortcut action
Edit keyboard shortcut action

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Nunya B. Zwacks 14. January 2008, 14:52

I tried doing this, but it didn'twork. I hate the shortcuts that don't require ctrl or something to be held down. I want them removed so the page doesn't randomly change while I'm reading (I have a habit of pressing keys when I read) but this is of no help at all. I removed the shortcuts but I can still do them.

Anonymous 29. February 2008, 22:17

Anonymous writes:

Me neither could change any of the shortcuts and it pisses me off..

Anonymous 27. March 2008, 00:23

Anonymous writes:

This didn't work at all. I can change stuff all day long, but it doesn't actually change the shortcut.

Tamil 27. March 2008, 08:03

I can change stuff all day long, but it doesn't actually change the shortcut.

Which one you are trying to change?

Anonymous 20. May 2008, 13:13

Anonymous writes:

it works fer me!

Dave 30. June 2008, 15:22

Tamil, as a curiosity, why must you duplicate the Opera Standard keyboard set-up before adding a new keyboard shortcut?

Can you you not just add the keyboard shortcut to the existing keyboard set-up (i.e. without going through the duplication process)?

Dava monkey

Tamil 30. June 2008, 15:31

Originally posted by Dava:

why must you duplicate the Opera Standard keyboard set-up before adding a new keyboard shortcut?

Can you you not just add the keyboard shortcut to the existing keyboard set-up (i.e. without going through the duplication process)?

You can do it but when you modify Opera Standard setup, Opera will create Opera Standard (Modified) setup. If you modify Opera Standard keyboard set-up again, Opera will another Opera Standard (Modified) setup. This will cause confusion.

Dave 30. June 2008, 15:44

Makes sense. Thanks for the information.

Dava monkey

Anonymous 13. July 2008, 07:58

lozt.com writes:

How do I make it CTRL+Left Mouse Click to open new tab?

Tamil 13. July 2008, 08:45

Not possible but you can use SHIFT+Left Mouse Click to open links in new tab.

bpm 22. July 2008, 01:06

One source of failure and confusion in KB / mouse editing is a bug (347868). The dialog generates a picklist if the focused sequence ends with a partial or complete action name - and it does not register the sequence unless you select the last action from this list - even if the action is complete, and even if you're not changing it.

Example: if you have the def Copy & next character & paste in effect, and you open the dialog and delete the "copy &" and hit OK, the change will not register. You needed to click "paste" on the picklist - even though it was already present. (Doing so doesn't generate another Paste.) As a simple rule: if a picklist is open, the assigment won't register.

Kevin Luu 30. July 2008, 07:34

I have a gazillion keyboard shortcuts. Since I come from a Unix/vi background, I like to be able to go line up, line down, page forward, page backward.

So what I did was go into the Preferences > shortcut sections, find out what the action is for a Page Forward and assigned it the letter 'f' since I wasn't using 'f' for anything else anyway. I repeated this for the 'b', 'j', 'k' respectively. If you're familiar with the vi-editor, you'll know what i mean. I assigned 'r' to be a refresh.

I didn't see any issues assigning these things to a single key as opposed to ctrl-key, only because when you're browsing a webpage, do you have any use for f, b, j, k, r , and others anyway? And why waste a step with pressing the Ctrl button.

Sure, I have to remember what I assigned, but if you have a vi editor background, it's second nature. And I love it the Opera even gives me the ability to do this. Firefox, forget about it. And who wants to install all those dang plugins. Who has the time?

Anyway, my vote is for single shortcut keys w/o the need for Ctrl.

ps. I use 'n' for new tab, 'c' for close tab,

1 and 2 are already assigned.
z and z are already assigned

Anonymous 30. August 2008, 09:10

Anonymous writes:

Tamil, what action should one need to select to "close other tabs" and "close all tabs"? Opera used to have "ctrl + alt + shift + w" and "ctrl + alt + w" for these purposes.

Tamil 30. August 2008, 09:19

Close other & Close all

kapodistrias 30. August 2008, 11:34

What is the action for going to tab 2 or 3???
Thanks in advance.

Tamil 30. August 2008, 11:37

It is not availabe but you can use Switch to previous page or Switch to next page

Anonymous 18. September 2008, 04:04

Anonymous writes:

Hi, I clicked and dragged "Find in Page" on to the Address bar from Tools > Appearance > Search. Now, I want to set a keyboard shortcut to set focus to it. How do I do it?
Thanks.

Tamil 18. September 2008, 10:46

Do you know you can press . or / and type search term? or enable Use Integrated Search and use shortcut CTRL+F.

Anonymous 18. September 2008, 15:30

Anonymous writes:

Thanks, I didn't know that. :up:

Ivar 27. September 2008, 12:20

I'd like to make a shortcut to open article in background when I'm reading the newsfeed, how do I do this?

Ivar 27. September 2008, 14:53

I tried Ctrl+Shift+Enter, but nothing happened. I'll try to explain closer.
Look at this picture: http://img515.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newsfeed2jo1.png
I go up and down in the list (1 on the picture) with the arrow keys and want to open the article link (2 on the picture) in background, without the list losing its focus, so I don't have to click on the list to have it focused again.

Tamil 27. September 2008, 15:12

How did you select a link?

See http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/nomouse/ & try.

Ivar 27. September 2008, 15:19

I tried Q, A, Shift+Up/Down/Left/Right, but none of them worked.

Tamil 27. September 2008, 15:27

Focus feed tab & try.

Ivar 27. September 2008, 15:47

It worked, but I wanted to do all this in one shortcut, how do I do that?

Tamil 27. September 2008, 15:52

AFAIK, not possible.

Anonymous 22. October 2008, 23:37

spacer writes:

Tamil, could you help me -
is it possible to create shortcut for turning on/off javascript for this site (site preferences)? how?
it would be very useful for me, because I have javascript turned off globally.
thank you.

Tamil 23. October 2008, 09:38

Create a button/keyboard shortcut with the following action.
Edit site preferences & Cycle to previous page & Cycle to previous page & Click button & Click default button

Anonymous 23. October 2008, 10:03

spacer writes:

Thank you very much!
I just added "& Reload" and now i'm looking forward to each site which wants me to turn my javascript on :-)

Anonymous 23. October 2008, 14:23

spacer writes:

hm, "& Reload" seems to be not working.
after reading through links from this post - http://my.opera.com/dude09/blog/2008/02/12/how-to-create-buttons-for-opera
I finally figured it out -> "& Delay,1 & Reload" works fine.
thanks again for your help.

Anonymous 1. December 2008, 22:11

Anonymous writes:

Did you know what is keyboard shortcut ( if any ) for creating a follower tab?

Tamil 1. December 2008, 22:17

Action code to create follower tab. 
Create linked window

Anonymous 2. December 2008, 12:51

Anonymous writes:

Great. Works. Thx.

Anonymous 5. December 2008, 17:47

Anonymous writes:

What is the action code for creating a new blank tab while the default tab is set to speed dial? Thanks.

Anonymous 8. December 2008, 17:18

Anonymous writes:

How can I use mixed mouse+keyboard shortcuts? Like RightClick+Ctrl+F6 == Back? (On my mouse this is the RightClick+scrollLeft)

Tamil 10. December 2008, 12:35

What is the action code for creating a new blank tab while the default tab is set to speed dial?

Go to page, "opera:blank"

How can I use mixed mouse+keyboard shortcuts?

AFAIK, not possible.

Anonymous 11. December 2008, 14:14

Anonymous writes:

"Go to page, "opera:blank""

Thx, Tamil. But I didn't make it clear, I wanted to create an Additional new blank tab, not in the current tab.

Tamil 11. December 2008, 14:16

New page & Go to page, "opera:blank"

Anonymous 12. December 2008, 12:50

Anonymous writes:

Great, works. Thanks.

kermik 12. March 2009, 10:14

Disable Ctrl+Q?
I keep (mis)hitting Ctrl+q when I want to type Ctrl+w (close window/tab) - any tips on how to disable the Ctrl+q key sequence?

Tamil 12. March 2009, 12:28

Did you follow the instructions posted in forums?

Anonymous 19. April 2009, 14:09

Anonymous writes:

Is there a way of finding text as you type, without having to press full-stop each time to activate it? Everywhere I've looked so far has only suggested the integrated search, but this is no good for me as I lose the ability to scroll in a page using the arrow keys. It also only works per tab and I'm not sure how to select links because after searching for the text to highlight the link, pressing enter takes me to the next word/sentence instead of opening it.

I've tried going into keyboard shortcuts and taking away the . from 'find inline 1' but this did not work.

I'm surprised this feature was taken out of Opera as many people view it as invaluable and shy away from Opera for that very reason.

Tamil 19. April 2009, 14:17

Nope.

Anant 20. May 2009, 22:25

Tamil, i was wondering that if there is a shortcut like left mouse click+ctrl to save images, can't we make one like click+alt to show image properties or something like that?

And how can we edit such shortcuts that combine left/right mouse click and keyboard buttons?

I also tried to make a mouse gesture to show image properties and tried it on a page containing only an image but it still doesn't work. Neither does it work on normal pages with images. :confused:

Anonymous 21. May 2009, 06:44

leo_khan writes:

great tutorial

Tamil 22. May 2009, 08:43

@LamboMan, AFAIK not possible.

Anant 25. May 2009, 19:44

Sad. Thanks anyway Tamil! Bajrangbali ki JAI!! :smile:

Anonymous 17. June 2009, 15:41

Kan writes:

For all the ppl who had problems. I tried to change the back and forward keys because i don't like pressing 2 buttons for it. So i followed the steps shown by tamil. At first it didn't work because i changed ctrl + left to "Z". If you do that do not forget to check the "use sintle key shortcuts" checkbox.

Anonymous 2. July 2009, 03:42

Anonymous writes:

Hi, thanks for the helpful instructions. First I changed "f ctrl" to "f". Success. Then I tried to swap the shortcuts for "Open link in new page" and "Open link in background page" by inserting / deleting "ctrl" in the column on the left. Didn't work. I tried it in both Copy of Opera Standard and Copy of Opera 9.2 Compatible (in keyboard setup).

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