<![CDATA[Bizarre Trackpad Behaviour]]>Hiya

For years now (3 different laptops, 3 different versions of Ubuntu), I've had this really weird problem with Opera:

If I make a delicate (1cm)(left to right) swipe on the trackpad scrollbar, it spontaneously abandons the current page, and searches (google) for whatever is in the clipboard.

Drives me insane - it happens about 50 times a day. Disabling mouse gestures doesn't make a difference... I've just spent a couple of hours trying to catch it as a jquery event... not having a lot of luck there either.

Any ideas on how to stop this?

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Opera Details:
Version 12.16
Build 1860
Platform Linux
System x86_64, 3.13.0-35-generic
Ubuntu 14.04
)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/5274/bizarre-trackpad-behaviourRSS for NodeSat, 18 Apr 2026 02:08:57 GMTMon, 22 Sep 2014 06:12:26 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Bizarre Trackpad Behaviour on Mon, 22 Sep 2014 22:41:54 GMT]]>Ah you're a genius. Fixed. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/52138https://forums.opera.com/post/52138Mon, 22 Sep 2014 22:41:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bizarre Trackpad Behaviour on Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:40:22 GMT]]>Trackpad scrolling is being interpreted as a middle-click? Strange ...

Under Preferences > Advanced > Shortcuts there is a button called Middle-click options. In Linux, there is an option to treat middle-click as Paste or to enable fast scrolling - it would seem you're set to Paste currently. If the middle-click does not occur over a text area, Opera treats it as "Paste and go" and of course if the pasted text is not a URL this results in a search for that text with the default search engine.

You can either try to figure out why scrolling is being translated as a middle-click, change how Opera responds to middle-clicks (in Preferences as stated earlier), or go into opera:config and tell it not to do that "Paste and go".

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/52073https://forums.opera.com/post/52073Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:40:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bizarre Trackpad Behaviour on Mon, 22 Sep 2014 06:13:22 GMT]]>Sorry - that should have been "right to left"

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/52062https://forums.opera.com/post/52062Mon, 22 Sep 2014 06:13:22 GMT