Comments on: Day 15: Mouse Gestures

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:33:41 +0000

jl - "searched through the gestures preferences, but can't find how to set so a specific gesture gets me to the top of the page."

Tools > Preferences > Advanced tab > Shortcuts > Edit Mouse Setup...

Then expand "Application" and change (in your case) "GestureUp" from "Stop" to "Go to start".

HTH :)

By: jl

jl — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 23:01:49 +0000

Great site, thanks!

Q: searched through the gestures preferences, but can't find how to set so a specific gesture gets me to the top of the page. ctrl-home as key command does (ctrl-end to bottom), but I'm lost on how to do this with the mouse ("stop" for me is rarely used, so a gesture straight up would be cool). ?

By: Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:32:30 +0000

↓ ↑ opens a link in the background. This is a very handy mouse gesture.

Even better, you can assign a middle mouse button to open a link in the background. Also, you can use a middle button to close a tab/page

By: axx

axx — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:35:47 +0000

One more great thing about mouse gestures - you can use then on unactive pages.

You simply should start gestures from page tab on page bar. You can do anything (reload, close, dupe etc.) with page without switching to it!

By: Tropos

Tropos — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:49:36 +0000

*replying on non-troppo:

As far as I know you can connect any USB-mouse on a Mac (for sure on mac OSX). Doing so, it will supply you with a right-button and surprisingly enough a right-button-menu as well. Therefore (though not tested) I think the right-button-mouse-gestures might be possible as well.

By: sgp

sgp — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 08:21:53 +0000

Hi, great info, great browser!

The first example (max/restore page) makes sense only when "show close button on each tab" is unchecked in your General Preferences. Otherwise page windows don't follow MDI so they can't be restored/maxxed.

By: Karl-Johan Sjögren

Karl-Johan Sjögren — Mon, 23 May 2005 21:37:13 +0000

I love mouse gestures and it was one of the main reasons I ever tried Opera and now I can't stop using them!

/ Karl-Johan Sjögren

http://www.crazybeavers.se/

By: Pavel K

Pavel K — Mon, 23 May 2005 14:45:35 +0000

I love Opera Mouse gestures, but hate StrokeIt! Why: I have problem how to learn Stroke it to use Opera style gestures…e.g. Close Window in Opera is “Down and Left” and in StrokeIt draw “C’, but I have try it zillion times and it was not recognized. Can I replace C for Down and Left easily.

By: Danny Swälas

Danny Swälas — Mon, 23 May 2005 11:07:12 +0000

TjL, nice to hear that Opera hade mouse gestures before StrokeIt. I think everyone here agrees that more people knowing about Opera's innovative history is positive for the Opera web browser.

non-troppo, I regognize the flipback/forward 'problem' in StrokeIt. But I am confused as to why StrokeIt can't perform all of Opera's commands. In Opera you can define your own commands just as you like, and then assign a shortcut key to that command. Say CTRL+J would open the mail panel, go to first unread email, and more actions after that if one would like. Am I not correct? Then, in StrokeIt, you can assign a gesture to whatever shortcut key you like. So you go to tour Opera gesture configuration in StrokeIt, and assign say the "up-down" gesture to be the equivalent of CTRL+J.

Or am I completely missing something here?

By: non-troppo

non-troppo — Sat, 21 May 2005 00:15:27 +0000

On the Mac, gestures are more difficult to produce (due to the single mouse button), requiring a CTRL+Click drag to work. Anyone know of a free Mac mouse driver to fake right-clicking rather than using modifer keys?

Also StrokeIt certainly does NOT replace Opera's gestures - it is incapable of triggering many commands Opera can, and cannot perform flipback/forward gestures easily. I love strokeit dearly and have used it since it first came out, but I always prefer Opera's gestures within Opera as they are vastly more closely tied in with the app.