Tag: keyboard shortcuts

Tip #206

— Posted inDesktop, Mail, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Press E to view all emails to and from selected email address.

If you work with email a lot, efficiency is important. Keyboard shortcuts, especially Single Key Shortcuts, in Vivaldi Mail help you to go through your messages with ease.

We’ve already shared some useful shortcuts in Tip #49 and Tip #163. Today, let’s talk about the shortcut “E”. When you’re viewing an email and would like to take a look at other emails from and to the same sender, just press “E” on your keyboard to display all correspondence between you and the contact.

If the shortcut doesn’t seem to work, go to Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts and make sure Mail and Calendar Single Key Shortcuts has been enabled.

Other ways to view messages for the sender:

  • Open a message, right-click on the message header and select Show Messages for Sender.
  • Right-click on a message in the list of messages, select Sender > Show Messages for Sender from the context menu.
  • Type “Show Messages for Sender” in Quick Commands.
  • Create a Mouse Gesture for the action.

Tip #196

— Posted inDesktop, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Press Alt+Enter to open a link or a search entered in the Address Field in a new tab.

When you’ve typed something in the Address Field, but then decide that you also want to keep the current page open, hold down the Alt key while pressing Enter and the link or search results will open in a new tab.

Tip #195

— Posted inDesktop, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

If a web page doesn’t load properly, try reloading it without cache.

Browsers save some website data to make them load faster when you visit the page again. If you notice that a page you’ve visited before doesn’t load properly, you can try loading the page again without the stored cache, also known as a hard refresh or reload.

To load a page without cache, use one of the following Keyboard Shortcuts:

  • Windows and Linux – Ctrl+Shift+R or Ctrl+F5
  • macOS – ⇧⌘R or ⌘F5

Alternatively, type “Force Page Reload” in Quick Commands.

Tip #131

— Posted inDesktop, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Use Shift + arrow keys to navigate between links and elements on web pages.

To focus on the next and previous elements on a web page, you can use the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, respectively. Depending on your goal, that might result in having to press the same key or key combination many, many times.

You can navigate faster through the whole page with just the keyboard using Spatial Navigation. While holding down the Shift key press the arrow keys to move to elements left, right, above and below the currently highlighted element (has an orange border around it). When you’ve focused, for example, on a link on the page, press Enter to open it.

Tip #121

— Posted inDesktop, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Hold down the ALT key while clicking on a folder to expand or collapse all folders in the folder tree.

In Bookmarks, Notes and Mail you can have content divided into multiple levels of folders, creating a so called folder tree.

To expand or collapse all folders in the folder tree in one go:

  1. Hold down the ALT key on your keyboard.
  2. Click on the / arrow in front of the folder name to expand or collapse the main folder and all its subfolders.

Tip #117

— Posted inDesktop, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Assign your preferred key combinations to Keyboard Shortcuts.

Whether you’re used to a different shortcut, the default one is uncomfortable to use or the command you need doesn’t have a default shortcut, it’s easy to customize Vivaldi’s Keyboard Shortcuts to fit your preferences.

To add or change a keyboard shortcut:

  1. Go to Settings > Keyboard.
  2. Browse through the list of shortcuts to find the one you want to update.
  3. Click on the input field next to the shortcut’s name.
    If there’s already a shortcut that you want to remove, press ← Backspace to delete it.
  4. Press the key combination on the keyboard to set it as the new shortcut.

Tip #49

— Posted inDesktop, Mail, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Press K, G or M on your keyboard to mark messages in Vivaldi Mail and Feeds as read.

In Vivaldi Mail and Feeds, messages don’t get marked read automatically. You’ll actively have to tell the client that you’re done with the message. This way you don’t need to remember to mark a message unread again, in case you want to follow up on it later.

Messages can be marked as read using a button in the user interface, through menus or using shortcuts. Probably the fastest way to mark messages as read is to use a single key shortcut.

Before you start using the shortcuts, make sure you’ve enabled single key shortcuts for Mail, Calendar and Feeds in Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts.

To mark messages as read use one of the following keys:

  • K – mark message as read.
  • G – mark message as read and open the next unread message.
  • M – mark all messages in the message thread as read.

If you wish, you can edit the shortcuts in Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Mail.

Tip #39

— Posted inCalendar, Desktop, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Use single key shortcuts to switch between Calendar views.

Vivaldi Calendar offers 6 different views for your events – day, week, multiweek, month, year and agenda. You can switch between them by clicking on the view buttons in the top right corner of the Calendar (below Search) or by using keyboard shortcuts.

To switch views using your keyboard, first enable Single Key Shortcuts in Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts. Then, press one of the following keys on your keyboard:

  • Day – D
  • Week – W
  • Multiweek – N
  • Month – M
  • Year – Y
  • Agenda – A

As with any shortcuts in Vivaldi, you can change them in Settings > Keyboard.

Tip #18

— Posted inDesktop, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Switch Themes with a keyboard shortcut.

Not in the mood for the current theme, but don’t feel like opening Themes Settings either to pick a different one? No problem. In Vivaldi, you can switch to the next theme in your Theme Library with a Keyboard Shortcut.

Since the command doesn’t come with a default shortcut, you first need to assign one to it.

  1. Go to Settings > Keyboard > View.
  2. Find the command ‘Next Theme’ on the list.
  3. Assign a shortcut to it.

Now, whenever you feel like changing the theme, just use the shortcut. Use it multiple times in a row to shuffle through all themes in your Theme Library.

By the way, you can also type “Next Theme” in Quick Commands or use a Mouse Gesture.

Tip #13

— Posted inDesktop, Vivaldi Tips — 1 min read

Type “Show Webpage Access Key Shortcuts” in Quick Commands to see which shortcuts you can use on the open web page.

Access Keys are a way to use a website’s key functionalities through keyboard shortcuts. Each website defines these shortcuts themselves.

To view the available shortcuts, either:

To use the shortcut, hold down Shift+Alt (Ctrl ⌥ on maOS) and the listed key to run the shortcut on the open web page.

Wikipedia.org, with the website's access keys listed in a pop up window.