Mouse and keyboard

Mouse

You can program Opera to perform events when you move your mouse in particular ways, called "Mouse gestures".

Click on the configuration you wish you change
Find the operation you wish to edit by typing in Quickfind or clicking the list
Click and enter a sequence of mouse movements to associate with the event

You can also:

Restore original mouse gestures for an event
Create different configuration sets to choose between
Disable mouse gestures altogether
Swap the mouse buttons for the back and forth gestures (for left-handed people)
Show tooltips when pointing to elements in Web pages and the Opera user interface

Keyboard

After using terminals, Emacs, and other UNIX programs, you get used to certain common UNIX keyboard shortcuts. By enabling this option you can use these keyboard combinations in text boxes.

Example: Ctrl + A is "Go to start of line".

You can program your keyboard by following the same steps as described for programming your mouse.

Enable auto-completion to make recently entered Web addresses appear in a drop-down menu when typing in the address field.

When you navigate bookmarks in Opera's Hotlist, you can press a key, for example E, to jump between items that start with the letter E. Turn on menu-style item selection to make bookmarks open automatically if only one item corresponds with the key you pressed.

Download keyboard setups