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Opera extra mouse gestures

Wednesday, November 2, 2005 8:32:03 AM

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If you don't know how to add/edit mouse gesture see How to add/edit mouse gestures in Opera?

Section is shown in brackets.
Gesture Action
[Notes Panel]
GestureDown New note
GestureUp New folder
[Mail Window]
GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureDown, GestureLeft Select all & Delete
[Transfers Panel]
GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureDown, GestureLeft Select all & Delete
[Edit Widget]
Button3
(Paste using mouse middle button) 		Paste
[Application]
GestureRight, GestureDown, GestureLeft, GestureUp Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen
GestureRight, GestureDown, GestureLeft, GestureUp, GestureRight Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & View page bar, 6
(Fullscreen with tab bar)
GestureDown, GestureRight, GestureLeft Undo
GestureDown, GestureRight, GestureDown Close page & Switch to previous page
GestureDown, GestureRight, GestureUp Close page & Switch to next page
GestureRight, GestureDown Switch to previous page
GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureLeft Set alignment, "hotlist", 6 | Set alignment, "hotlist", 0
(Toggle panel)
GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureDown View page bar, 0 | View page bar, 6
(Show/hide tab bar)
GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureDown, GestureLeft Set alignment, "Document toolbar", 6 | Set alignment, "Document toolbar", 0
(Show/hide address bar)
GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureDown, GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureDown Enable menu bar | Disable menu bar
GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureDown, GestureRight Show popup menu, "Browser Menu Bar"
GestureUp, GestureLeft, GestureRight New page & Go to page, "opera:config"
(Preferences editor in new tab)
GestureLeft, GestureUp Show preferences
GestureLeft, GestureUp, GestureLeft Manage sites
(Manage site preferences)
GestureLeft, GestureUp, GestureRight Customize toolbars
(Appearance)
GestureLeft, GestureDown, GestureRight Manage cookies
GestureDown, GestureRight, GestureUp, GestureLeft Exit
GestureDown, GestureUp, GestureRight, GestureDown Hide Opera
GestureLeft, GestureDown, GestureRight, GestureDown, Gestureleft View document source
GestureDown, FlipBack Show popup menu, "Browser Bookmarks Menu"
GestureUp, FlipBack Show popup menu, "Browser Feeds Menu"
GestureRight, FlipBack Enable mediumscreen mode | Disable mediumscreen mode
(Enable/disable fit to width)
GestureRight, GestureDown, GestureRight Delete private data

Updates:
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May 1, 2008

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Comments

qicai02 Tuesday, May 30, 2006 4:56:02 AM

happy lol

Unregistered user Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:50:08 PM

Charlene writes: Hey i have found loads of things on the net about mouse gestures. but what i want is to get rid of them. I don't wish to have them on my machine any longer there annoying me. Can someone please tell me how to get rid of them?

Unregistered user Friday, August 4, 2006 3:31:45 PM

Apollia writes: I was looking for the same thing, Charlene. I just now figured it out. Go to the Tools menu, select the Preferences menu item, and then in the window that comes up, click the Advanced tab. Then, in the list that will appear at the left side of the window, highlight Shortcuts (it's near the bottom). Right at the top is a checkbox which says "Enable mouse gestures". To get rid of mouse gestures, you'll want to uncheck that. There's a screenshot of what window and checkbox I mean right at the top of the guide page this blog post links to - http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/show.dml/55311. Hope that helps. :-) As for me - I'm so happy to see that it's possible to add and delete particular mouse gestures, that though I myself was originally going to turn off mouse gestures altogether, instead, I think I'm going to just delete some of the nuisance mouse gestures. Like the right-click + drag down + drag right one which closes a tab, which I keep inadvertantly doing - which is really annoying when in fact I mean to do right-click + drag down to open a link in a new tab. It looks like that guide will be helpful in figuring out how to do that. Thanks, author of this blog post, and author of that guide.

Unregistered user Saturday, August 1, 2009 2:18:22 AM

JorgAdams writes: I'm using Version 9.64 (Build 10487) and I've unchecked the "Enable mouse gestures" checkbox, but I still get them. I've also tried creating my own mouse setup and deleting all the gestures, but the changes don't stick. I go back in and they're all there again. What's up with this? I hate gestures. I'm about ready to gesture Opera right off my computer.

Tamil Saturday, August 1, 2009 10:57:12 AM

Did you disable Enable Mouse Flips?

Strathos Saturday, August 1, 2009 11:47:54 AM

I never thought of combining gestures like this: "GestureRight, FlipBack". Thanks for the info!

Unregistered user Saturday, August 8, 2009 4:15:33 AM

JorgAdams writes: Thanks, Tamil. I hadn't unchecked Enable Mouse Fips, but that wasn't the only problem. I see now that the flips are not turned off with unchecking the "Enable mouse gestures" checkbox, so that explained those, but it didn't explain the other gestures I was still getting, or the fact that the mouse settings changes wouldn't stick. Now when I try, they stick okay (mostly!)*. Just one of those things where it got confused and needed a restart, I guess. * Only thing I noticed this time was that the 4 settings under Advanced->Tree Widget reappeared after the first time I deleted them, but now they stay gone after deletion. (I don't even know what they do - I was just playing around with my custom config.) Chalk it up to some bug that fixed itself on restart.

Tamil Saturday, August 8, 2009 8:30:36 AM

Originally posted by anonymous:

the fact that the mouse settings changes wouldn't stick.

I don't have any problems. confused

Unregistered user Thursday, November 25, 2010 8:11:11 AM

Yngve writes: I have one frustrating gripe with Opera: I have turned off mouse gestures, and mouse flips, but still when I swipe left or right on my trackpad Opera thinks I want to go back or forward. This wouldn't normally be a problem, if it wasn't for the fact that I do two finger scroll on my trackpad and so moving slightly left or right is difficult to avoid...

Tamil Thursday, November 25, 2010 8:16:54 AM

Disable Enable Mouse Flips.

Seji Sunday, July 3, 2011 10:17:51 PM

Hi Tamil,

'Button3 paste and go' is not working in Opera 11.5. Do you have any workaround/fix?

Tamil Monday, July 4, 2011 1:24:40 AM

Originally posted by Seji:

Do you have any workaround/fix?

Nope.

Seji Monday, July 4, 2011 7:58:41 AM

Well, I'll wait till they hopefuly fix it. Thanks. :)

Unregistered user Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:15:39 PM

Anonymous writes: Apollia, that's the most stress-relieving tip I've ever found. Thank you, Flos, UK

Unregistered user Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:18:47 PM

Anonymous writes: Apollia, thanks! One of the most useful tips I've found. Flos (UK)

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