How do I open folder in a new tab on middle click?

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How do I make it possible to open a folder in a new tab by making a single click of the middle click button (sorta like how if you click on the middle click button while hovering over a link in your web browser, it will open that link in a new tab)?

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This works for me only from the folder tree.

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Settings - File Types....

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More options/combinations: Go [Directory Opus Manual]

And turn on Preferences / File Displays / Mouse / Single middle click to trigger file and folder middle double-click events

"Settings / File display / Mouse / Single middle click to switch the selection status " no longer works with folders.

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Thanks. That works.

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This works, thank you. I also managed to disable switching the new tab by adding =nofocus. I added this also to the folder tree using Preferences, however, do you know how to also add it to the Favourites bar?

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You can do that if you have the latest beta installed, by adding this to the commnad:

KEYARGS "mmb:NEWTAB=nofocus"

The Favorites Bar command is a little special, due to having to translate the name of the favorites branch it displays, but the whole replacement command looks like this:

@ctx:="Favorites SHOWICONS USEQUALKEYS NOOPENINTABS AUTOCREATE BRANCH=""" + LanguageStr("FavoritesBar") + """ KEYARGS ""mmb:NEWTAB=nofocus"""
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Hi,

In order to open a folder on a new unfocused tab, should we add :

Go NEWTAB=nofocus KEYARGS "mmb:NEWTAB=nofocus"

In Settings > File Type > All folders > Events > Double middle click ?

I did that and nothing happens when single clicking a folder.

Thank you very much.

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Since you configured something related to double click, the fact that it has no effect on single click seems rather reassuring.
Have you tried to double middle click?

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Indeed, but then, what does the following mean ?

To which command should this be added ?

I was expecting it to be added after the previously mentionned command, that is the command "Go NEWTAB" which is in Settings > File Types > All Folders > Double middle mouse click (if we read the previous comments to which Leo replies).

Since there is no "Single middle mouse click" entry in the Events section, I thought this was somehow a workaround.

So, to which command should be this added to make single middle mouse click open a folder in a new unfocused tab ?

Thank you.

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Turn on this setting:

Preferences / File Displays / Mouse:
Single middle click to trigger file and folder middle double-click events

You may then also want to turn off the setting above that one, which makes middle-clicks toggle a single file's selection (similar to ctrl + left-click).

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Thanks, and sorry about that — I didn’t realize this had already been mentioned earlier.

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