So, if you are like me, a maniac wanting perfection in everything using little or no effort, you should know about Mouse Gestures by now. Using a right click and a few mouse movements someone could go back, go forward, increase or decrease the font size, open and close a new window or tab. This was a big improvement in Safari (Cocoa Gestures) or Firefox (Reddox), but what if someone was using Safari for Vista (because of the much better font rendering engine or acid3 test compliance) or the new Google Chrome (with it's fast interface and features), mouse gestures solutions were at the mercy of plugin-ins developers and constant updating. Needless to say, why not use mouse gestures in Vista or XP, for explorer or other programs ?
Well, as some of my friends said, nobody told us how to do it.
Until now. Gmote from handform.net is a small utility that starts with Windows and tranlates the movement of your mouse in actions, no matter what program is running. You could assign keyboard shortcuts to your gestures, browser actions like back/forward and so on, you could exclude programs or define specific rules for individual ones.
Let's begin.
1. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD gmote 1.30 ( or here : 14/08 2008. 0.5 MB )
2. Make a folder somewhere and extract the files.
3. Run gmote.exe.
4. Configure gmote.
- There's a small white "g" in the toolbar, click on it and it will open the configuration menu. Go to Options > select the second option "hold right button and drag mouse" > check or uncheck "show gestures", "trails" etc.
- Add the programs you want to exclude in the "Exclusion Programs" menu. If you don't know the location of all your programs you could start them and "exclude from the recent used".
- "Create Gestures" by using the space on the right or loading the configuration file from here.
- After you created your gestures, deselect the active button (no 1), and test it. Personally I used it only in Chrome, Safari and Windows Explorer with minimal actions like Back/Forward , New Tab, Close.
