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How to add/edit mouse gestures in Opera?

Wednesday, 2. November 2005, 05:37:53

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Add new mouse gesture
Edit mouse gesture

Add new mouse gesture

Tools → Preferences... → Advanced → Shortcuts → Mouse 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 gesture in Input context and shortcuts field and action in Actions field

Opera duplicate mouse setup
Duplicate "Opera Standard" mouse setup

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

Opera new mouse gesture
New mouse gesture in "Application" section

Opera new mouse gesture input context and shortcut
New mouse gesture input context and shortcut

Opera new mouse gesture action
New mouse gesture action

Edit mouse gesture

Tools → Preferences... → Advanced → Shortcuts → Mouse 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 gesture in Input context and shortcuts field and action in Actions field

Opera edit mouse gesture
Edit mouse gesture

Opera edit mouse gesture action
Edit mouse gesture action

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dm1030 14. February 2006, 04:02

Thank you for this guide. I've been trying to figure out how to change my tab behavior to mimic FireFox and this helped.

tekstilci 19. April 2006, 19:40

I am going to use this to shortcut "ctrl+hide" for hiding my Opera to near the clock:)

Anonymous 29. November 2006, 20:54

Fox writes:

It really makes my Opera faster!
:up:

Anonymous 23. September 2007, 20:24

Anonymous writes:

This gesture manager is horrible, it should be 'select action, click edit, perform gesture' and your done.

Anonymous 12. November 2007, 17:40

Anonymous writes:

how does opera know which mouse setup to use?

Tamil 13. November 2007, 04:32

how does opera know which mouse setup to use?

CTRL+F12 → Advanced →Shortcuts → Mouse setup → [SELECT]

Anonymous 15. January 2008, 01:29

lokiseto writes:

i once visited you site and somehow
managed to make a mouse gesture like this

on a site you press right mouse button

GestureDown, GestureRight, GestureUp and the a history window opened letting one to choose a query.

so if you have some idea on it, i'd appreciate it

you're doing great "research" here by the way.

thanks

i think i lack a command new window or smth. doh cant remember

Anonymous 15. January 2008, 17:41

Anonymous writes:

I'm so far now but it still won't work

GestureDown, GestureRight, GestureUp=Show popup menu, "Internal Back History"

any ideas

ty lokiseto

Anonymous 16. January 2008, 00:26

lokiseto writes:

funny though i looked at your comments above
and it worked

lmao ty tamil

Anonymous 27. January 2008, 19:20

Gnoshme writes:

Alternatively edit the mouse .ini file directly.

In Linux it's in:

~/.opera/mouse/

Much clearer IMHO. The only thing I generall change is to switch the default GestureDown to open in a new tab to GestureUp which matches the Firefox All-In-One-Gestures plugin.

Here's what the file looks like - very clear and simple:

Opera Preferences version 2.1
; Do not edit this file while Opera is running
; This file is stored in UTF-8 encoding

[INFO]
NAME=Opera Standard (Modified)

[Application]
GestureLeft=Back
GestureLeft shift=Rewind
GestureLeft, GestureDown=Rewind
GestureRight=Forward | Fast forward
GestureRight shift=Fast forward
GestureRight, GestureUp=Fast forward
GestureUp, GestureDown=Reload
GestureUp, GestureLeft=Go to parent directory
GestureUp, GestureRight=Maximize page, 1 | Restore page, 1
GestureDown, GestureLeft=Minimize page, 1 | Restore page, 1
GestureDown, GestureRight=Close page, 1
GestureRight, GestureLeft, GestureRight=Close page, 1
GestureUp=Open link in new page | New page
GestureDown, GestureUp=Open link in background page | Duplicate page
FlipBack=Back
FlipBack shift=Rewind
FlipForward=Forward | Fast forward
FlipForward shift=Fast forward
Button6=Back
Button7=Forward

Anonymous 29. January 2008, 09:45

Anonymous writes:

i need an expression with the following behaviour
(enable plugins & reload frame) | (disable plugins & reload frame)
but cannot make it work

Tamil 29. January 2008, 09:55

(enable plugins & reload frame) | (disable plugins & reload frame)

Remove brackets and try.

Anonymous 7. July 2008, 22:26

Anonymous writes:

I just want to edit pressing the right mouse button and scroll up the mouse wheel opera switch/cycle to the tab on the right next to the actual one.
It don't work and neither google nor a forum for opera users gives a hint.

Tamil 8. July 2008, 05:14

I just want to edit pressing the right mouse button and scroll up the mouse wheel opera switch/cycle to the tab on the right next to the actual one.

It's not possible.

erich_k 6. September 2008, 10:39

Press right + scroll wheel: changes tabs

I'd like to add:
Press left + scroll wheel: Zoom in/out (like control + scroll wheel)

or:
Press left + Press middle: Zoom in
Press right + Press middle: Zoom out

Is any of this possible?

BTW: what are Button6 and Button7?

THX a lot!

Tamil 6. September 2008, 12:20

AFAIK, it is not possible.

erich_k 6. September 2008, 18:40

Thanks anyway. Up until now I'm just using GestureUp and Down for this. It's nice for the times when I'm surfing keyboardless; then I'm usually far away from the screen and need to zoom in rather often...

(I've tried "Leftbutton + Button3", "Leftbutton & Button3", "Leftbutton, Button3". and as you said, none of them worked...)

Anonymous 9. September 2008, 05:25

Leon writes:

WTF! I could not disable this FAST ENOUGH! What an annoying thing for a browser to do...

iam1simpleguy 28. October 2008, 17:26

can there be any .. any mouse gesture that can save particular image to selected location??

Tamil 28. October 2008, 17:30

Nope.

Anonymous 14. December 2008, 10:46

Anonymous writes:

How to close page when double click left mouse button?

tnx

Tamil 14. December 2008, 10:57

Not possible.

lokiseto 15. May 2009, 11:44

hi tamil,
any idea why this mouse gesture Action does not work

New browser window, Go to page, "http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en"
a simple double click would suffice though i am interested in the principle

LamboMan 18. May 2009, 17:59

@ lokiseto >> Hi man, the code you need is this

New browser window & Go to page, "http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en"

Hoe that helps. Enjoy! :smile:

lokiseto 20. May 2009, 23:40

ty very much, hah dont forget the mighty Ampersand ruler of the semicolon
all right, if you need help searching anything ask me hope to be of service

LamboMan 25. May 2009, 19:47

@ lokiseto - welcome bro! :smile:

Anonymous 2. June 2009, 17:06

Inder. writes:

Hi,
I must say that I was pretty much pleasently surprised by Bajrang Bali's picture.

Tamil 2. June 2009, 17:10

acidagfc 17. June 2009, 17:43

Is there any way to define diagonal gestures?
They are handy for zooming, and I don't fancy adding keyboard keys to MOUSE gestures.

Tamil 17. June 2009, 17:46

What do you mean by diagnal gesture?

Anonymous 17. June 2009, 18:41

Nimetön writes:

Is there a way go change "stop" (which is pretty useless since pages load instantly nowadays) from gesture up, to a "go to speedial" command? You know, without going to speedial page 1, 2, 3, and so on, just the speedial page that list all the...speedials?

Tamil 17. June 2009, 23:45

Search for stop and change action for GestureUp to Show speed dial

acidagfc 18. June 2009, 09:48

By diagonal I mean cursor moving from top-left corner to bottom-right in a straight line. Not down THEN right, but down AND right simultaneously.

Tamil 18. June 2009, 09:58

Currently, diagonal gestrues are not supported.

Anonymous 6. July 2009, 06:55

Maur writes:

Hey Tamil, not sure if you know the answer to this, but this has been bugging me since I started using Mouse Gesutres.

Now the program is pretty good about letting you know what kind of actions you can perform since it autofills the box with suggestions, but the help is very vague about general syntax.

Apparently you can use "&" to combine actions? I noticed you can use "," to make longer gestures, and apparently shift can be used as well, but what exactly does "flip" mean. I don't know what "FlipBack" does for example. Also I see you can use "buttons" but what else can be used that perhaps is not mentioned?

Tamil 6. July 2009, 09:02

Apparently you can use "&" to combine actions?

:yes: and "|" to perform this or that.

I don't know what "FlipBack" does for example.

Hold right button and click left button. By default, flipback gesture will go to previous page.

Originally posted by anonymous:

Also I see you can use "buttons" but what else can be used that perhaps is not mentioned?

You can use shift and alt.

Anonymous 6. July 2009, 09:02

Taras writes:

Hello. I need to put mouse cursor over the link and somehow copy the link address into the clipboard. Mouse button would be preferable (any button).

Anonymous 6. July 2009, 09:05

Taras writes:

I mean put mouse not in the address bar but right in the page over the thumbnails which have their own links.

Tamil 6. July 2009, 09:09

AFAIK, not possible.

Anonymous 6. July 2009, 09:55

Taras writes:

Is there any way to copy link address into the clipboard?
When I put mouse cursor over the link and press Alt+Ctrl+C it doesn't work either.

Tamil 6. July 2009, 09:59

Originally posted by anonymous:

When I put mouse cursor over the link and press Alt+Ctrl+C it doesn't work either.

Select link using keyboard shortcut a or q and try.

Anonymous 6. July 2009, 10:03

Taras writes:

So it's not possible to highlight necessary link with a mouse? It's much simpler than working with q and a.
Thanks.

Tamil 6. July 2009, 10:07

You can highlight and copy address using right click menu.

Anonymous 8. July 2009, 14:40

Gourav writes:

I created a gesture for show panel, but its not workiing. it looked like this

GestureLeft, GestureDown Show Panel, 1 | Hide Panel, 1

I tried removing the alignment numbers and all, still not working. Please help.

Tamil 8. July 2009, 14:47

Set alignment, "hotlist", 6 | Set alignment, "hotlist", 0

Anonymous 10. July 2009, 19:52

Chris writes:

If you really want there is an open source application called "Strokeit!" that allows mouse gestures for ALL applications, kinda like a plugin: http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/

I use it to run programs, send keystrokes to various applications, run common utilities such as minimise and always on top. It's really useful and speeds up your desktop. You can assign global commands and ones for individual applicatons and even create your own gestures by drawing the symbols.

See "http://eatwebsig.ning.com/video/mouse-gestures-using-strokeit" for a tutorial I put together on it. You can have mouse gestures assigned for opera, firefox, IE, and your windows explorer.

Chris

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