See Immersive Reader Mode in Action
Check it out, just move your mouse to the top right corner of your screen and wait 1 second to auto activate Reader Mode.
Let’s just say you are lounging back in your chair with a hand ONLY on the mouse and want to activate immersive reader mode without clicking a mouse button or using a keyboard. Let’s setup a mouse gesture with the following criteria:
- Use AutoHotKey
- Only send key if active window is a browser
- Detect mouse position
- Add a cooldown timer to only activate every 1 second
- Don’t need to click a mouse or a keyboard
- Active Reader mode when moving mouse to TOP RIGHT corner of monitor
; ---- AUTO READER MODE ----
#Persistent
CoordMode, Mouse, Screen
SetTimer, CheckPos, 750
return
CheckPos:
if !WinActive("ahk_exe msedge.exe")
return
MouseGetPos, x, y
if (x = 1919 && y = 0)
Send, {F9}
return
Ironically, at the time of writing this blog post, Edge Browser does not let me activate F9 Immersive Reader Mode on blog posts…. not sure why! I’ve tried disabling all sorts of stuff on blog posts but nothing works.
Gotta dig into this later.