Nibble me with your Command Chains!

Prebz

Hey everyone! I'm Preben and I work as a content creator for Vivaldi, primarily making youtube videos With 4.1 coming up I'm going to make a video about Command Chains, and I was thinking I could make it in to a challenge, ish.

So what I wanted to ask from you is to give me some Command Chains to try out! Can be super easy, ooor a bit more challenging. Totally up to you! I think it could be fun having the community with me when I explore the vast plains of Command Chains

Umm, I think you wanted to read this first.

Pesala

@prebz I tried to create a command chain to open saved sessions when used with a keyboard shortcut like Shift+O from the Start Page. One can assign Shift+O to open a saved session, but the command opens the URL drop list on the Start Page.

I could not get the command chain to Focus the Page, then open the Saved Session dialog.

hlehyaric

@potmeklecbohdan In other words, search before starting a thread.

luetage

@prebz Here’s two I haven’t shared yet.

Close Tab Move Left

Previous Tab (by Order)
Delay
Parameter: 100
Select Next Tab
Close Tab

Close Tab Move Right

Next Tab (by Order)
Delay
Parameter: 100
Select Previous Tab
Close Tab

This is useful, because the close tab activation is unpredictable with existing settings. Most will activate in recently used order and when you are trying to close a bunch of tabs with keyboard alone you will be switching tabs quite often and give up at some point and do it with mouse selection and clicking. With these command chains it is predictable and you can assign a keyboard shortcut to it to make it efficient. I personally use alt-, and alt-. to operate. Currently the only downside is you gotta disable »include active tab in initial selection« in vivaldi://settings/tabs.

Pathduck

@prebz A couple weeks ago a user asked if it was possible to automatically tile two tabs and translate one of them to compare. I think that would be a great way to present Chains and Translation at once.

Unfortunately, there is no command for "Translate Page"...

Maybe you can nibble some developer's ear until they add it

Pesala

I see no command for New Private Window to use in command chains.

Prebz

@pathduck hahahaha I'll definitely do that

SergeiMus

@luetage, thanks a lot!!!

Unfortunatelly, Close Tab Move Left and Close Tab Move Right doesn't work in second row of tabs(

luetage

@sergeimus That’s because a tab stack is handled as one tab. It could be argued it should select the next tab outside of the stack, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. You can close the whole stack with a command chain though.

SergeiMus

That's a simple one:

PAGE SCALE 130%

Reset page scale
Increase page scale by 10%
Increase page scale by 10%
Increase page scale by 10%

I have noticed that I often use 130% scale, but it can be any other.

luetage

@sergeimus The »close tab move left/right« commands actually work quite well in tab stacks, they just behave differently. Since it ignores selection it will either close the tab to the right or left of your active tab. Knowing this you can use it intentionally and the active tab itself can be closed with an existing shortcut in the end.

SergeiMus

My variation of Close Tab Move Left (coz Close Tab Move Right is by default for me in prefs)

Close Tab Move Left (v2)

Move Active Tab Left
Close Tab

I wish Close Tab Move Left/Right will be implemented natively some day.

Thescorb0

@prebz I have a few which I use a lot.

Close a tab which I am not on - First command: Switch to (tab number), Second command: close tab.
Go back/forward in new tab - First command: Clone selected tab, Second command: A very small delay to allow for the new tab to be created, Third command: History back/forward
Hide taskbar - First command: Fullscreen mode, Second command: A short delay for the fullscreen animation, Third command: hide/show Tab bar, Fourth command: hide/show Address bar, Fith command: Hide/show panel

Most of these can be done with a mouse, but Command chains let me do it with only the keyboard.