My OperaYou need to be logged in to post in the forums. If you do not have an account, please sign up first.
Opera's page navigation behavior with tilt wheel mouse is annoying.
I'm just getting familiar with Opera. I have version 10.10 installed with Ubuntu 9.10 and version 10.50 installed with Windows 7. Both installations are on the same computer. The mouse I use on this computer is a Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 3000, with a tilt wheel.On most applications, the tilt wheel can be used for horizontal scrolling. With Opera, it doesn't work the same way. Suppose I open a web page in a new tab and then proceed to another page on the site, where the horizontal scroll bar appears due to the page being wider than the window size. The scroll bar will initially be to the left. I can use the tilt wheel to scroll the page to bring the right side into view; this is normally how most apps respond to the tilt wheel. Now, here's where the abnormal behavior occurs. If I press the tilt wheel to scroll back to the left, instead of scrolling, the browser goes back to the previous page. In other words, the tilt wheel functions as a back button in this case.
Are there any preference settings in Opera to make it respond to a mouse tilt wheel the same way as other applications, which, again, is to just scroll right and left?
You should specify that it only goes back in Linux (in 10.10) and doesn't do so in Windows (or in 10.51 generally).
Old versions of Linux mapped the mouse differently, Opera is still configured for that setup. You can go to Preferences > Advanced > Shortcuts and edit the mouse setup to change it. The left direction of your tiltwheel send a signal Opera labels as "Button6", if you look for Button6 you see that it is currently assigned as Back, Edit this and change it to Scroll Left. Likewise the right direction is "Button7", change the assignment of Button7 to Scroll Right. If you have extra buttons which are supposed to be Back and Forward those will be Button8 and Button9 (respectively), if you want those buttons to work in 10.10 for Linux you can add them to the mouse setup.
Old versions of Linux mapped the mouse differently, Opera is still configured for that setup. You can go to Preferences > Advanced > Shortcuts and edit the mouse setup to change it. The left direction of your tiltwheel send a signal Opera labels as "Button6", if you look for Button6 you see that it is currently assigned as Back, Edit this and change it to Scroll Left. Likewise the right direction is "Button7", change the assignment of Button7 to Scroll Right. If you have extra buttons which are supposed to be Back and Forward those will be Button8 and Button9 (respectively), if you want those buttons to work in 10.10 for Linux you can add them to the mouse setup.