[gentoo-desktop] Re: I like to alter the middle click button in konqueror

[Duncan]

faatihah posted <200510130854.00348.faatihah@×××××.com>, excerpted below, 
on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:54:00 +0800:

> I like to alter the middle click button in konqueror. Current middle click
> on page tab will refresh the page or do google search. I like the OPERA
> click finction: middle click on page tab will close the page.

I don't see middle-/click/ to close as an option, but there are a couple,
and you can activate and configure mouse gestures as desired.

Since the middle button under X normally pastes the selection, most
native mouse-aware apps under X/Linux/BSD/whatever will make use of the
selection in some way.  Opera doesn't, because it isn't primarily designed
for *x/X-Windows-System type applications, but rather for MSWormOS and
embedded applications.

The options for middle-click under Konqueror, therefore, as expected for
an X-native application, make use of the content of the selection.  Here
(KDE 3.4.2), it normally does a search on the selected words.  However,
there's an option under Konqueror config, Web Behavior, to change that to
go to the URL in the selection.  (I'm guessing that if there isn't a URL
in the selection, it would simply refresh the current page, but that's
just a guess, as I don't have that option checked.)

As mentioned, however, you /can/ activate mouse gestures.  These are
normally invoked using the middle mouse button, but that's customizable
(see below). There are two schemes available initially, a an
original/basic scheme and one more complex/featureful, but you can
customize them as you wish. This is linked to general KDE functionality
not just Konqueror, however, so you won't find the config for it on
Konqueror's config, but rather under KDE's KHotkeys (and now more
generalized input) preferences, in the control panel (or reach it directly
by typing in kcmshell khotkeys in the open dialog or a konsole window).

As mentioned, you have two choices initially.  There are some conflicts,
so choose the one you want or mix and match, customizing as desired.

The original "Konqi gestures ;)" can be found under examples. There's only
back/forward/reload/up, and if you look at the gestures, they do what one
might intuitively expect from the motion.

The others are under their own main section, "Konqueror gestures", which
includes far more functionality, including all sorts of tab actions
(close/new/duplicate/next/previous) the basic four above
(back/forward/reload/up), close/duplicate window, and stop-loading.  These
aren't quite as intuitive and with so many, aren't as easy to learn as the
basics under examples, but provide more functionality for those "mouse
power-users" that really get into mouse gestures.

Note the close-tab and close-window gestures in the "advanced" scheme,
above.  You can use these as-is or customize them as desired, to do what
you asked.  There are customization tips under the
examples/basic-konqi-gestures scheme header page.

Note that because the config is KDE-global, you can configure "universal"
gestures here, if desired, as well.  Want a "close window" gesture to
work everywhere?  Simple to configure one!  Of course, you may
also configure (global or app/window specific) keyboard shortcuts here,
either parallel to mouse gestures doing the same thing, or as separate
actions, if desired.

Finally, while we're talking about global options, the gesture activating
button, gesture time-out, and a list of windows (if any) you may wish to
exclude from the global gesture list, can be found under the "Global
Settings" button on the khotkeys configuration dialog.  Even tho that's
mentioned  in the customization tips under konqi-gestures, it took me a
moment to find, because I kept looking in the Actions tree, not realizing
it was an "out of band control signal" so to speak, as a separate button.

Hopefully the gestures allow you to do close enough to what you wanted,
and more!  They are certainly enough for /this/ "power user"!  (Tho I'm
really more of a hot-key power user than a mouse-gesture power user, but
anyway...)

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