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PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by erase-israel »

Timothycquinn wrote: post #33

At least windows explorer has some great extension utilities like File Menu Tools; a tool that can be configured to cover pretty much every file explorer extension usecase you can imagine. OSX and XDG (Gnome etc...) based systems have nothing close last time I checked.

Your analytical skills could use some work - that feature has been in Finder for over half a decade. It's also vastly more powerful as it can interface with AppleScript. I think they've added Shortcuts to the latest macOS release which introduces infinitely more possibilities, though admittedly I'm quite unfamiliar with this

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by dang »

erase-israel wrote: post #332
Timothycquinn wrote: post #33

At least windows explorer has some great extension utilities like File Menu Tools; a tool that can be configured to cover pretty much every file explorer extension usecase you can imagine. OSX and XDG (Gnome etc...) based systems have nothing close last time I checked.

Your analytical skills could use some work - that feature has been in Finder for over half a decade. It's also vastly more powerful as it can interface with AppleScript. I think they've added Shortcuts to the latest macOS release which introduces infinitely more possibilities, though admittedly I'm quite unfamiliar with this

Trollish usernames aren't allowed here, because they effectively troll every thread they post to. I've therefore banned this account. If you want to pick a different username, we can unban you.

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Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by prirai »

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 for wayland. Among the advanced ones are krunner, ulauncher and sway-fzfify.

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by PsylentKnight »

pletnes wrote: post #313
PsylentKnight wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I've tried PowerToys a couple of times but always end up going to back to Autohotkey for this because it's just so much more consistent.

I tend to remap caps to ctrl, for instance. Sometimes this fails, meaning that suddenly, the keyboard is stuck in caps lock mode and can’t be returned to «lower caps mode». I don’t know if autohotkey can intercept caps lock?

Absolutely, that's actually what exactly what I use it for. The only time it can be a little wonky is when RDP'ing to remote servers.

  #SingleInstance force
  if not A_IsAdmin
   Run \*RunAs "%A_ScriptFullPath%" ;
  LControl::Capslock
  Capslock::Control

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Post by afterburner »

afterburner wrote: post #193
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…

Finally, a replacement for Launchy, down to the easy calculator feature!

You know what, never mind, it's weirdly slow (1 to 2 seconds to react, doesn't intercept key shortcut early enough)

https://ueli.app/ is way better, and has incredible plugins.

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