Comments on: How to enable single key shortcuts in Opera?

By: mike

mike — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:00:33 +0000

I know ctrl+j makes far more sense than ctrl+alt+t for opening th transfers window, but I definitely had to change that back. I also have to (unfortunately) agree with sid that the removal of shell functionality in the that window seriously limits its usefulness.

By: BAMAToNE

BAMAToNE — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:55:30 +0000

Yeaaaaah… I could do that.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:41:15 +0000

BAMAToNE, you could change the keyboard shortcuts: Tools > Preferences > Advance > Shortcuts > Keybard setup > Edit…

By: BAMAToNE

BAMAToNE — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:35:15 +0000

I definitely turned single key shortcuts back on in 9.5, but what I’m missing the most is ctrl+b for “paste and go.” There’s no way I’m hitting ctrl+shift+v or whatever just for that. Using ctrl+v and then hitting enter is easier… which kind of defeats the purpose of a “shortcut.” Sigh.

By: Ryan Wagner

Ryan Wagner — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:24:28 +0000

Yeah, I use those all the time. It always does forward or backward when I try to press both at the same time though.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:03:40 +0000

Ryan Wagner, ah… that’s part of the mouse gestures. Holding down the right-click and then left-clicking will go back in the browser’s history. And vice versa for going forward.

By: Ryan Wagner

Ryan Wagner — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:40:12 +0000

What happens with me is that pressing the two buttons either take me forward or backward on the page.

By: AK

AK — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:29:39 +0000

Daniel, Ryan: I tried that too, it works, but it seems Opera requires perfect timing on the “double click” to open a new tab. So I’m back to Ctrl+Shft+Click as well.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:42:17 +0000

Ryan, hmm… it works for me. The only change I made with the keyboard is enable single key shortcuts.

By: Ryan Wagner

Ryan Wagner — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:37:21 +0000

That would have been a pretty clever idea Daniel, but it didn’t work in my Opera 9.5

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:35:24 +0000

Ryan Wagner, here’s another thing you could try. Click on the link with both mouse buttons.

By: kkk

kkk — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:48:27 +0000

More and more things being disable by default now ,start bar,view bar,single key shorcuts…(bad move ).To me,start bar is handy to open some bookmark.View bar,i can hide many rubbish in it!iAnd the return of status bar !with the swtiching image button,(not much ppl will use it often,i think it is better to hide in the view bar ), Eat up the screen…yet not so useful.WOW!all this make opera look even more alike to firefox ui.

By: Ryan Wagner

Ryan Wagner — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:02:47 +0000

@Harpazo

Thanks for the suggestion. I actually had seen that when I was looking for a solution, but chose not to do it because I hate having scripts that need to run on every page I visit. Event listeners like this just create more work for the browser, and I like to keep things as simple as possible.

I really do appreciate the tip though.

By: An

An — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:41:29 +0000

I know I am gona be grump for many days, but then I will get used to it. It is harder to make modifications to your customization to opera everytime you get new versions, change office, etc better get used to what comes as default but hey there is one more option.

For old timers… how about (Like with toolbars/menu setup) have seperate profiles for shortcuts as well, and let old timers use older shortcuts by selecting older profile.

By: Harpazo

Harpazo — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:39:05 +0000

@ Ryan Wagner

It’s also a pet peeve of mine that you can’t edit Opera’s mouse-click config like u can gestures and keystrokes. While you can’t change it to Ctrl-Click right now, what you can do is use a UserJS that makes Shift-Click open the link in a background tab.

http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/2007/05/08/userjs

Hope this helps for now!

Cheers!