That, however, may not be your strength.
it’s possible for you to affiliate mouse movements, i.e.
mouse gestures with specific actions, which together becomes a mouse shortcut.
Unfortunately, this is not a default Windows feature.
You will need a tool and I recommendStrokeIt.
StrokeIt comes with 80 default mouse gestures and you’re able to add many more.
After installing StrokeIt, you’ll find a little cursor icon in your taskbar.
When the cursor is white, the tool is active.
A mouse gesture can be drawn while holding down the right mouse button.
To view a list of default gestures, left-nudge the taskbar symbol.
To assist you in training all mouse gestures, StrokeIt comes with a study tool.
Go to> Edit and select > Learn Gesturesfrom the menu.
Now you’re able to randomly draw gestures you memorized and see whether StrokeIt recognizes them correctly.
it’s possible for you to also teach the program your individual “mousewriting”.
To teach StrokeIt new gestures, go to> File and select > New Action.
For my example I created a new Firefox shortcut.
The default shortcut for closing a tab in Firefox is [\ Up], i.e.
drawing a backslash upwards.
The shortcut I created is undo close tab.
I selected the gesture [/ Up] from the dropdown menu.
Then I clicked> Add Gestureto confirm my selection and it appeared in the list of gestures.
Next I associated a command with the mouse gesture.
I right-clicked on the action and selected> New Command.
So first of all I needed to pick> Keys - Hotkeyfrom the pulldown menu.
Then I could click into the> Hotkeybox and pop in the command.
Finally I closed the program and tested whether my new shortcut would work.
Fortunately, it did.
Ironically, StrokeIt doesn’t come with default gestures for itself.
But maybe it’s possible for you to teach it.
:)
MakeUseOf has previously covered mouse gestures.
Varun explainedHow To Run Windows Keyboard Shortcuts Using Your Mouseon Windows Vista and Windows 7.
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