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Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by sascha_sl »

mariusmg wrote: post #194
NelsonMinar wrote: post #164

PowerToys Run is fantastic as an app launcher. Not quite as good as Alfred on MacOS but then nothing is. There's a bunch of similar apps for Windows (I used to use Hain) but none ever worked quite right for me, PowerToys Run does though. FancyZones is awfully nice too for just putting a window somewhere at a reasonable size and location. As other folks have noted SysInternals is another similar rogue Windows product…

>but none ever worked quite right for me Try Wox, it has built-in integration with "Everything".

PowerToys Run is Wox.[1]

1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run#attri...

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by Jenk »

octagons wrote: post #15

Fancy Zones makes my day-to-day so much more convenient. I wish there was an equivalent in Linux that worked as well - I’ve tried a few gnome plugins but always been disappointed.

i3/bspwm/dwm (x11) or sway (wayland). FancyZones is a poor imitation (but still worth using compared to not) of those window managers.

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by RajT88 »

Shadonototra wrote: post #146
xen2xen1 wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Support costs. They don't help enough people to justify the problems that would pop up. The people who download Power Toys can probably take care of themselves.

support costs for a trillion dollar company, sure if they can't do it, i know lot of people who would do it for the same salary they are getting over there at MSFT lazy culture, how long it took them to add tabs to explorer? hmm

Trillion dollar companies don't like funding their support departments any more than < million dollar companies do.

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by t0astbread »

xen2xen1 wrote: post #208
t0astbread wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably not exactly what you're looking for but i3 could be worth checking out. It's a tiling window manager with a powerful customization/scripting interface and it has a feature to save and restore window layouts. There's also Sway which is similar but based on Wayland though it does not have the save/restore feature. Granted they might not be as easy to set up as installing PowerToys on Windows if you have specif…

Isn't I3 terminals only? Am I just missing something?

Maybe you're thinking of tmux which splits your terminal into multiple panes and can look similar.

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by umutcnkus »

maleldil wrote: post #171
umutcnkus wrote: post #88

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I have remembet that when the preview window is active, if you double click the document it will open in relavent app. It seems to gone at some point. Any idea?

That's if you're using Finder's embedded preview on Columns mode. If you're using Spacebar to preview, there will be a button on the top right corner to open in the relevant app.

Actually I'm almost sure that was working with both options before. Weird. Thanks anyway!

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

na85 wrote: post #230
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #199

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> It's been a few years since I had that phone so the details are a bit fuzzy but I seem to recall it was very discoverable from the email attachment interface, at the very least. That's great if I'm sending an email, but what if I want to upload the documents to a website, or send them via iMessage, or Airdrop them to another Apple device, or print out the scan to effectively make a second paper copy? Do you add the…

>Yeah, bundling everything into iTunes worked really well for Apple, didn't it? :D I'm not really an "Apple Guy" so it's not clear to me what you are referring to.

Over the course of more than a decade, Apple kept adding features to iTunes until the app become horribly slow, confusing, and buggy. Just about everyone hated it.

When Apple finally killed the Mac version of iTunes on stage at WWDC, they basically admitted that they'd tried to cram in too much functionality, by joking that they were considering a Calendar and Web Browser.

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by 369548684892826 »

drakenot wrote: post #119

Anyone have a good “Push to Talk” utility for windows? This PowerTools has something close but not exactly what I’m looking for. I’ve gotten used to PTT in apps like Ventrilo / Discord and hate having to constantly unmute / remute in Teams.

Teams added something like this recently, hold down ctrl+space to temporarily unmute

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/muting-and-unmuti...

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by fleaaa »

bsnnkv wrote: post #144

If Fancy Zones is too basic for you, especially coming from Linux, you might like komorebi[1], a fully scriptable, bspwm-esque automatic tiling window manager for Windows 10+. [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

GlazeWM[1] and FancyWM[2] is also pretty nice, albeit not as stable as Fancyzone.

[1]: https://github.com/lars-berger/GlazeWM

[2]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/fancywm-dynamic-tiling-win...

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by skirmish »

Liquix wrote: post #216
NelsonMinar wrote: post #164

PowerToys Run is fantastic as an app launcher. Not quite as good as Alfred on MacOS but then nothing is. There's a bunch of similar apps for Windows (I used to use Hain) but none ever worked quite right for me, PowerToys Run does though. FancyZones is awfully nice too for just putting a window somewhere at a reasonable size and location. As other folks have noted SysInternals is another similar rogue Windows product…

GNU/Linux users may be interested in rofi [0] or the more spartan dmenu [1] [0] https://github.com/davatorium/rofi [1] https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/

Wofi [2] is inspired by rofi but is Wayland native. Works very well for me with Sway.

[2] https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by forgotmypw17 »

NelsonMinar wrote: post #164

PowerToys Run is fantastic as an app launcher. Not quite as good as Alfred on MacOS but then nothing is. There's a bunch of similar apps for Windows (I used to use Hain) but none ever worked quite right for me, PowerToys Run does though. FancyZones is awfully nice too for just putting a window somewhere at a reasonable size and location. As other folks have noted SysInternals is another similar rogue Windows product…

When I still used Windows, my favorite app launcher was voidtools Everything
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