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Opera Standard 10 Slim Skin

Wednesday, 9. September 2009, 15:35:09

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Opera Standard skin with

  1. Smaller toolbars.
  2. Clear Speed Dial (without border, number and close button).
  3. Thin drag bar [ ... ].
  4. Buttons without borders in tab bar tail.
  5. Yellow attention color.

Opera Standard Skin
Opera Standard skin

Opera Standard Slim Skin
Opera Standard 10 Slim skin

Download skin from Opera Standard Slim skin page or click direct download link.

Known Issue: Speed Dial State 2 won't work with this skin due to side effect of hiding Speed Dial number.

You can get Speed Dial background shown in screenshot from here.

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Hide Opera title bar

Thursday, 23. July 2009, 17:48:33

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I have added an option to hide title bar in Opera Launcher as several users want it [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].

To hide/unhide title bar, use Titlebar button! or create new keyboard shortcut/mouse gesture in application section with the following action. 

Execute program, "C:\Program Files\Opera\OperaLauncher.exe", "/h"

! If your path to OperaLauncher.exe is different change it in toolbar configuration file after closing Opera.

If you minimize Opera and then switch to Opera, taskbar will hide.

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How to open new tab with homepage in Opera?

Monday, 4. May 2009, 15:10:54

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Few users want to open new tab with homepage instead of Speed Dial and it can be accomplished by combining actions.

Keyboard shortcut

If you don't know how to edit keyboard shortcut see this. Change the action for keyboard shortcut, t ctrl in Application section to the following. 

New page, 1 & Go to homepage

Mouse gesture

If you don't know how to edit mouse gesture see this. Change the action for mouse gesture, GestureDown in Application section to the following. 

Open link in new page | New page & Go to homepage

Button

Drag & drop New tab button next to new tab button and then delete old new tab button.

Don't delete new tab button first.

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How to change the height of various toolbars in an Opera skin?

Sunday, 5. April 2009, 12:38:48

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The height of toolbars in current default skin is large compared to previous default skin and it can be reduced to increase browsing space.

Create a backup of your current skin or the skin you want to change the height of toolbars.

  1. Extract skin.ini from zipped skin file.
  2. Reduce the values of Padding Top and Padding Bottom under the sections mentioned in the following table. You can also specify negative values.
    Toolbar Section
    Menu bar [Menu Button Skin]
    Main bar [Mainbar Skin]
    Personal bar [Personalbar Skin]
    Tab bar [Pagebar Button Skin]
    Address bar [Addressbar Skin]
    Navigation bar [Navigationbar Skin]
    View bar [Viewbar Skin]
    Status bar [Statusbar Skin]
  3. Update skin.ini in zipped skin file.
    You can't update an active skin.
  4. Activate modified skin from Tools > Appearance... > Skin or using Skin button.

See Opera Skinning article to know more about basics of skinning Opera.

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How to convert the search field into a button in the Opera Search panel?

Friday, 20. February 2009, 09:36:44

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If you want to search for same thing in different search engines, Search panel is convenient compared to integrated search field in address field.

When you add a search engine to the Search panel, Opera will add search field instead of a button. The problem with search field is you have to enter the search term again if you want to search for already entered search term in global search field. Search field can be converted in to a button easily.

  1. Add required search engine to the Search panel from Tools → Appearance... → Buttons → Search
  2. Open toolbar configuration file and under [Search Panel Toolbar.content] replace SearchX, Y with ButtonX, "Search Engine Name"=Search, Y
  3. Activate modified toolbar setup from Tools → Preferences... → Advanced → Toolbars → Toolbar setup to see the changes.
Opera Search panel with search field
Search panel with Acronym Finder search field 		Opera Search panel with search button
Search panel with Acronym Finder search button

Toolbar content before modification.

[Search Panel Toolbar.content]
Search0
Button1, "Google"=Search
Button2, "Ask"=Search, 1
Button3, "Yahoo!"=Search, 2
Button4, "Amazon.com"=Search, 3
Button5, "Wikipedia"=Search, 4
Button6, "Ebay.com"=Search, 5
Button7, "Yahoo!Shopping"=Search, 6
Button8, "BitTorrent"=Search, 7
Search9, 31
Toolbar content after modification.
[Search Panel Toolbar.content]
Search0
Button1, "Google"=Search
Button2, "Ask"=Search, 1
Button3, "Yahoo!"=Search, 2
Button4, "Amazon.com"=Search, 3
Button5, "Wikipedia"=Search, 4
Button6, "Ebay.com"=Search, 5
Button7, "Yahoo!Shopping"=Search, 6
Button8, "BitTorrent"=Search, 7
Button9, "Acronym Finder"=Search, 31

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How to add/change icon for custom buttons or menu items in Opera?

Sunday, 1. February 2009, 21:38:08

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One can locate a menu item easily and quickly by seeing an icon rather than text.

To add/change icon
  1. Create/find an image in any image format (GIF, JPG, ICO or PNG but PNG is recommended) and resize it to 16 x 16 pixels. If you use large size, Opera will show resized icon. For example, we will add Google favicon as icon for Google Auto Translation menu item.
  2. Place icon image inside a folder (for example, custom_buttons) and add folder to zipped skin file after creating a backup.
  3. Open skin.ini from zipped skin file, add relative path to image with icon name as shown below under [Images] section and update it in skin file. 
    google = custom_buttons/google.ico
  4. To add/change icon for menu item, open menu configuration! file, find menu item and specify icon name. For Google Auto Translation menu item, change 
    Item, Google Auto Translation = Go to page, "http://translate.google.com/translate_c?u=%u"
    to 
    Item, Google Auto Translation = Go to page, "http://translate.google.com/translate_c?u=%u", , , google
  5. Activate modified skin and menu setup or restart Opera.

Similarly, you can add/change icon for custom buttons by editing toolbar configuration file.

Opera custom menu icon
Google Auto Translation menu item without and with icon

The general syntax for a button/menu item is 

Button/Menu item = Command, parameter-1, parameter-2, button tooltip, icon name
If there is no parameter-1 or parameter-2 or button tooltip leave them blank. Since there is no parameter-2 and button tooltip in Google Auto Translation menu item, they are left blank.

To remove icon

To remove icon from menu item, remove icon name and if there is no icon name then you have to specify a dummy name to override the default icon as shown in the following example.

To remove icon for Go to Web Address from hotclick menu, in menu configuration! file under [Hotclick Popup Menu] change 

Item, M_HOTCLICK_POPUP_MENU_GOTO_URL = Go to page, "%t"
to 
Item, M_HOTCLICK_POPUP_MENU_GOTO_URL = Go to page, "%t", , , Dummy

Opera will ignore icons on an action that follows an "&" symbol.

! = You should not modify ui\standard_menu.ini (defaults\standard_menu.ini for versions below 10) file as Opera will overwrite it during update. Create a copy of standard menu and edit it.

You can use existing skin images as icons without modifying skin file.

Updates:
Feb 7, 2009
Aug 2, 2009

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Full screen mode with toolbars in Opera

Sunday, 25. January 2009, 18:04:43

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Opera full screen mode with tab bar & address bar
Full screen mode with tab bar & address bar

By default, full screen mode doesn't have any toolbars but you can enable them by

  • using following full screen buttons
  • modifying action for keyboard shortcut, F11
  • modifying right click full screen menu item action Enter fullscreen | Leave fullscreen under [Document Popup Menu]
  • creating a new mouse gesture in Application section

Full screen with Action code for keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture! Button#
without scroll bar with scroll bar
Tab bar Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & View page bar, 6 Full Screen Full Screen
Address bar Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & View address bar, 6 Full Screen Full Screen
Status bar Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & View status bar, 6 Full Screen Full Screen
Tab bar & Address bar Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & View page bar, 6 & View address bar, 6 Full Screen Full Screen
Tab bar & Status bar Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & View page bar, 6 & View status bar, 6 Full Screen Full Screen
Address bar & Status bar Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & View address bar, 6 & View status bar, 6 Full Screen Full Screen
Tab bar, Address bar & Status bar Leave fullscreen | Enter fullscreen & View page bar, 6 & View address bar, 6 & View status bar, 6 Full Screen Full Screen

! If you want scroll bar in full screen mode, add & Delay, 10 & Enable scroll bars to the end of action code.
# To add, drag & drop button to a toolbar and accept confirmation message.

  • Opera won't show address bar and status bar in inactive tabs.
  • It is not possible to show panel toggle at the edge of the window in full screen mode.

Update: 2009: Feb 2 & 15

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Opera Launcher

Sunday, 23. November 2008, 16:47:44

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Opera Launcher was created using AutoHotkey. It can

Download (size < 210 KB), unzip, place OperaLauncher.exe inside Opera installation directory, C:\Program Files\Opera and run it to launch Opera. The following settings dialog will be shown when you run it first time.

Opera Launcher settings dialog
Opera Launcher settings dialog

Keystrokes
Keystrokes can be used to perform an action after starting Opera. ^=Ctrl, !=Alt and +=Shift

Examples:

Action Keyboard Shortcut Keystrokes
Enter fullscreen F11 {F11}
Hide Opera Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H ^!+h
New tab Ctrl+T ^t
Minimize Opera Alt+Space+N !{Space}n

Restart
Use Restart Opera button! or create new keyboard shortcut/mouse gesture in application section with the following action. 

Execute program, "C:\Program Files\Opera\OperaLauncher.exe", "/ro"

! If your path to OperaLauncher.exe is different change it in toolbar configuration file after closing Opera.

Restore bookmarks/notes
To restore previous version of bookmarks/notes file, close Opera, move previous version of opera6*.adr/notes*.adr from profile\backups directory to profile directory and rename it to opera6.adr/notes.adr.

Changelog
Date Changes
Oct 24, 2009
  • Option to change Speed Dial background image automatically.
  • Added help button.
Jul 23, 2009
  • Option to hide Opera title bar. Thanks to lunigma.
  • Opera restart.
May 11, 2009
  • Updated for Opera 10.00 Alpha Build 1413.
  • Performance improvements.
  • Tray icon balloon error message.
  • Transparent icon.
Feb 23, 2009
  • Option to delete old backup files. To disable, set it to 0.
  • Sessions backup will be created every time Opera starts.
Feb 10, 2009 Didn't empty temporary download directory in non-English versions of Windows. Fixed.
Feb 8, 2009
  • Command line parameters passed to Opera. Thanks to itcpeter.
  • Updated for Opera 10.00 Alpha Build 1139.
  • Opera Launcher can be placed anywhere, but path to Opera Installation Directory should be added in OperaLauncher.ini file.
Jan 8, 2009 Option to send keystrokes.
Nov 26, 2008 Option to empty temporary download directory.
Nov 23, 2008 Initial release.

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How to delete typed-in addresses without affecting history in Opera?

Monday, 4. August 2008, 14:49:54

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To delete all typed-in addresses
You can use "Clear history of visited pages" option in "Delete private data" dialog but it will delete history. To delete typed-in addresses without affecting history, use anyone of the following.

  • Drag & drop Clear Typed-in button to any toolbar.
  • Create new keyboard shortcut in Application section with action Clear typed in history
  • Add "Clear Typed-in" button to "Delete private data" dialog.

Opera Typed-in Addresses
Typed-in addresses

To remove a (mis)typed-in address

  1. Click this & note path to Opera directory.
  2. Close Opera.
  3. Open typed_history.xml in any text editor from Opera directory. (opera.dir for versions below 9.60)
  4. Remove the line containing unwanted entry & save. (For versions below 9.60, don't delete first line as it contains number of typed-in addresses. There is no need to edit first line because Opera will update it automatically.)

opera.dir
To remove digg.com entry, delete digg.com line in opera.dir file using any text editor

Update: Oct 8, 2008

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Auto-hide toolbars in Opera

Monday, 30. June 2008, 04:48:14

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You can auto-hide any toolbar in Opera after enabling it via keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture or button.

Buttons

You can add buttons to any toolbar (main bar, tab bar, address bar, navigation bar, view bar, status bar, start bar or panels) except menu bar & personal bar simply by dragging button links to required place. Clicking on the button links without dragging will add the buttons to Tools → Appearance → Buttons → My Buttons for later use.

When you try to add a button, a dialog box with following message will popup. Press OK to add button.

Adding new button with action

[Action]

Do you want to proceed?
To remove a button, right-click on it and select Remove From Toolbar.

You can find several custom buttons in Opera Wiki and TTT-Buttons.

Keyboard shortcuts / Mouse gestures

Create new keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures in Application section with following action codes.

Toolbar Action code for keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture Button
Short Long name
Menu bar Enable menu bar & Delay, 12000 & Disable menu bar MB Menu Bar
Main bar View main bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View main bar, 0 Ma Main Bar
Personal bar View personal bar, 6 & Delay, 12000 & View personal bar, 0 PB Personal Bar
Tab bar View page bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View page bar, 0 TB Tab Bar
Address bar View address bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View address bar, 0 AB Address Bar
Navigation bar View navigation bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View navigation bar, 0 NB Navigation Bar
View bar Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 6 & Delay, 8000 & Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 0 VB View Bar
Status bar View status bar, 6 & Delay, 12000 & View status bar, 0 SB Status Bar

To modify auto-hide time, change Delay, X value (time in milliseconds) in above code. You have to edit Toolbar Configuration file to modify button name or delay value.

To hide/show a toolbar without auto-hide use the following.

Toolbar Action code for keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture Button
Short Long name
Menu bar Enable menu bar | Disable menu bar MB Menu Bar
Main bar View main bar, 6 | View main bar, 0 Ma Main Bar
Personal bar View personal bar, 6 | View personal bar, 0 PB Personal Bar
Tab bar View page bar, 6 | View page bar, 0 TB Tab Bar
Address bar View address bar, 6 | View address bar, 0 AB Address Bar
Navigation bar View navigation bar, 6 | View navigation bar, 0 NB Navigation Bar
View bar Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 6 | Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 0 VB View Bar
Status bar View status bar, 6 | View status bar, 0 SB Status Bar

If you drag & drop buttons with short name to a toolbar from Tools → Appearance → Buttons → My Buttons, space will be added to button name.

Update:
Jul 1, 2008
Mar 12, 2009

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