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Change Opera Speed Dial background image automatically

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I have more than 500 beautiful wallpapers :yes: including lone tree and images in Hindu Gods & Goddesses photo album.

Changing Speed Dial background image is boring after several times and time consuming. So, I have added an option in Opera Launcher to change Speed Dial background image automatically with one of the images from specified directory after specified time interval.

Set time interval to 0 days, to see new Speed Dial background image after every Opera startup.

Change an option in Opera dialog automatically

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Some of us change an option in particular Opera dialog always and it can be done automatically with the help of following action codes.

Action Description
Cycle to next page Activates next tab
Cycle to previous page Activates previous tab
Focus next widget Focuses next item
Focus previous widget Focuses previous item
Next item Focuses next item in dropdown list
Previous item Focuses previous item in dropdown list
Focus next radio widget Selects next ratio button
Focus previous radio widget Selects previous ratio button
Check item Enables checkbox
Uncheck item Disables checkbox
Show dropdown Shows dropdown list
Close dropdown Closes dropdown list
Click button Clicks button or changes state of checkbox
Click default button Clicks default highlighted button
Select item Selects an item
Go to start Focuses first item in a list
Go to end Focuses last item in a list
Delay, X Delays next action for X milliseconds

Following examples are for modifying menu configuration but you can use them in keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures.

Example 1: Enable "Open pop-ups in background" and "Enable content blocking" in site preferences dialog

Under [Document Popup Menu] section replace

Item, M_EDIT_SITE_PREFERENCES = Edit site preferences
with
Item, M_EDIT_SITE_PREFERENCES = Edit site preferences & Focus next widget & Show dropdown & Previous item & Select item & Cycle to next page & Cycle to next page & Focus next widget & Focus next widget & Focus next widget & Focus next widget & Check item

The above code has 12 actions in the following order and animation shows functioning of code.

  1. Edit site preferences
  2. Focus next widget
  3. Show dropdown
  4. Previous item
  5. Select item
  6. Cycle to next page
  7. Cycle to next page
  8. Focus next widget
  9. Focus next widget
  10. Focus next widget
  11. Focus next widget
  12. Check item

Opera Site Preferences animation
Functioning of code

Site preferences dialog can be closed automatically by adding the following at the end of above code.

& Click default button

Example 2: Enable "Open tabs inside current window" in manage sessions dialog

Under [Browser Session Menu] section replace

Item, M_BROWSER_SESSION_MENU_MANAGE = Select session, -1
with
Item, M_BROWSER_SESSION_MENU_MANAGE = Select session, -1 & Focus previous widget & Focus previous widget & Click button & Focus next widget & Focus next widget

Example 3: Enable "Detailed Options" in delete private data dialog

Under [Browser Tools Menu] section replace

Item, MI_IDM_CLEAR_PERSONAL_INFORMATION = Delete private data
with
Item, MI_IDM_CLEAR_PERSONAL_INFORMATION = Delete private data & Focus previous widget & Click button

The above can be also accomplished by modifying dialog.ini file.

Use delay action between actions to check functioning of code.

Opera Standard 10 Slim Skin

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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.

Style your My Opera news page

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Latest news page used to show your blog posts and photos in green color and others in blue color but this was removed in carambola release. Frown

You can bring back colors by using user style sheet. Smile Add the following code to user CSS file and reload news page to apply style sheet.

/* Subscriptions (Latest news) */
.newscontainer h2 { background:#2b7fb6; color:#fff; }
.newsowner h2 { background:#82a70b; }

My Opera news page before
News page before

My Opera news page after
News page after

Import other software custom dictionary entries to Opera spell check dictionary

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Multiple words can be added/deleted in a single shot to/from Opera custom dictionary file.

To import words from other custom dictionaries

  1. Open profile\dictionaries\en.oow file if you use default dictionary, English (US) or your language dictionary file with extension oow in any good text editor like Notepad++.
    If you can't find above file then add at least one custom word to the dictionary that wasn't initially included in the dictionary like username to create custom dictionary file.

    Don't use Microsoft Notepad as it shows all words in a single line without any delimiting character.

    Opera custom dictionary file
    Opera custom dictionary file

  2. Open other software custom dictionary file in text editor and copy the words.
    Software Custom dictionary file name Custom dictionary file path
    Microsoft Office CUSTOM.DIC %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Proof\CUSTOM.DIC
    Firefox persdict.dat %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\persdict.dat
  3. Paste the copied words anywhere but before last line, NUL to Opera custom dictionary file and save.
  4. Restart Opera.

Quickly check if people are talking to you in Opera IRC

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Opera automatically highlights text when other people say your IRC username, to tell you to pay attention. But if you are away for a while you have to scroll up and check. You can use CSS to summarise how many times people have said your name so that you can quickly see if you missed something.

The following will display a counter at the top right corner of the chat window showing how many times people have said your username.

  1. Copy C:\Program Files\Opera\styles\im.css in Windows or /usr/share/opera/styles/im.css in Linux to profile\styles directory. This is to avoid overwriting during update and to make backup easy.
  2. Add the following CSS code to the bottom of copied file and save.
    .highlight {
        counter-increment: personals;
    }
    
    .highlight:after {
        position: fixed;
        top: 0px; right: 0px;
        content: "Your name has been mentioned "counter(personals)" times";
        border: 1px dotted #552;
        padding: 1px;
        background-color: #ffffe1;
        width: 25em;
    }
  3. Specify path to IM Style File and save.
  4. Restart Opera.

Opera Internet Relay Chat
Opera IRC

[Using CSS to disable features of Opera IRC chat]

Opera Speed Dial Sliding Puzzle

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Sliding puzzle can be played with Opera Speed Dial by dragging a Speed Dial slot horizontally or vertically and dropping in nearby empty Speed Dial slot.

Opera Speed Dial sliding tile puzzle scrambled
Scrambled tiles

Opera Speed Dial sliding tile puzzle solved
Solved puzzle

You can download above Speed Dial background and tile images in a zipped file from here. See this to change Speed Dial thumbnail images.

You can also play by adding numbers 1-8 to your existing Speed Dial thumbnail images.

Additional info

The following changes should be made in skin.ini inside skin file.

Speed Dial border and Speed Dial button border can be removed by commenting those lines.

[Speed Dial Thumbnail Widget Skin]
; Tile Center = backgrounds/speeddial.png

[Speed Dial Thumbnail Widget Skin.selected]
; Tile Center = backgrounds/speeddial-selected.png

[Speed Dial Button Skin]
; Tile Center = buttons/push_button_speeddial.png

Speed Dial title text color and Speed Dial button text color can be changed as shown below.

[Speed Dial Thumbnail Title Label Skin]
Text Color = #ffffff

[Speed Dial Button Skin]
Text Color = #ffffff

Speed Dial remove icon can be removed by commenting it.

[Boxes]
; Speeddial Close = pagebar_close_button/close.png

"Click to add a Web page" and "What is Speed Dial?" texts can be removed by specifying empty strings in en.lng file.

-1799226240=

528772207=

This Speed Dial was one of the selected hot picks in Speed Dial Hot Picks contest.

Update: Aug 12, 2009

Hide Opera title bar

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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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