How to open file with mouse click on Mac – Razer Synapse

There is no direct way to assign one of your mouse buttons to open a file (that you open often). Fortunately, one of the other actions can be used for this:


1. Open Razer Synapse and select Customize tab

How to open file with mouse click on Mac - Razer Synapse

2. Click on a button you want to assign action to (button no. 5 in my case)

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3. Select "Launch Application" in the Button assignment dropdown menu

4. Check "Launch website" checkbox.

Here comes the interesting part. Instead of website URL, you can use this to open any file on your computer using the file:// protocol. Just insert file://PATH_TO_YOUR_FILE and the file will get opened anytime you click your mouse button.

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5. Click "Ok"

Done. You can try it out by clicking the selected mouse button.

Published 20.04.2016 by Peter Pech

  1. Iz

    Great tip. This also works for opening folders, and it works just as well with Windows as Mac.

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