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7. December 2011, 09:44:42

edsonh

Posts: 18

M2 (opera's mail client) : reenable keyboard-only navigation


Greetings!

I miss the ability to navigate through the M2 various panels and messages using only the keyboard.

Nowadays, one has to open a panel which covers a fifth of the screen and select a label with the mouse cursor, for the exclusive use of the keyboard is rather cumbersome for such tasks.

This is in stark contrast to previous incarnations of the M2, which allowed one to focus on the mail panel (via keyboard) and freely select a label using the arrow keys.

Thanks, again, for the excellent e-mail client, still great in the 11.60 version!

7. December 2011, 11:20:30

burnout426

Posts: 13202

F4 to open the panel list and F7 to focus the mail panel (if it was selected and expanded the last time you closed the panel list) and tab/shift + tab to quickly jump to the "Labels" access point and enter to open the view for the lab

F4 = Open Panel LIst

F7 = Focus the panel list (will be the mail panel if it was selected and expanded when you closed the panel list. If not, you need to tab/shift + tab till you get to the panel button and then press the arrow key to switch to another panel. Then you press tab to get into the panel )

Tab / Shift + Tab = Quick move through the access points (to get to the "Labels" access point for example).

Up/Down = Move through the different views in the access point (to selected a label for example).

Enter = Open the view's message list (which focuses the message list)

Ctrl + W = Close the message list tab

Tab in message list = jump over to message and then tab through its parts

If you need the right-click menu when a message list entry or message is focused, use shift + F10 or the context menu button left of the right ctrl button.

Home and end jump to the beginning/end of a message list. Arrow keys can be used too.

You can press L to bring up the "Label as" menu.

(Didn't have a mouse at all for ~8 months a couple years ago and used M2)

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