AltSnap
Maintained continuation of Stefan Sundin's AltDrag (by RamonUnch)
QuickLook
Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows (by QL-Win)
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| AltSnap | QuickLook | |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | 69 | |
| 1,692 | 16,191 | |
| - | 2.0% | |
| 8.1 | 3.6 | |
| 12 days ago | 15 days ago | |
| C | C# | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
AltSnap
Posts with mentions or reviews of AltSnap.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-12.
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Scrollbars Are Becoming a Problem
The only solution I've found for addressing this in any meaningful way is AltSnap[0], which lets me avoid needing to find window borders for any resizing or moving operations.
[0]: https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap/releases
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Praise for DesktopOK's AltDrag for Windows
AltSnap is an opensource fork of the original AltDrag program which is no longer maintained
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Can't use ALT+right mouse button in Remmina to resize windows
I run Sway and use Remmina to remote to my Windows 10 machine at work. On my Windows 10 PC I have AltSnap installed so I can use ALT+left mouse to move the windows and ALT+right mouse to resize them.
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Firefox in the style of Arc Browser
In order to resize the browser window and move it - I use AltSnap ( https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap )
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Let's make an htop-like in your browser (with Rust)
There is an updated version called altsnap. https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap/releases
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Rounded-Fox, a css configuration for minimalists
This isn't a default feature on Windows even with PowerToys. You'd need something like AltSnap to get this working.
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How to make windows' borders 'magnetic' such they snap to each other?
Pretty much only possible with 3rd party tools. https://windhawk.net/mods/slick-window-arrangement https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap
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I cant believe Microsoft hasn't improved these fundamental features over the last 5 years! Search/explorer still the same! (or worse)
For resizing you can try AltSnap (available through Scoop as well) - it mimics what's available by default in Gnome and some other DEs on GNU/Linux and it's pretty useful once you get used to it - you basically hold down a key while left/right clicking the mouse to move/resize a window that you point over (and all the precision you need is to point at one of the four quarters of the window).
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removing the border on a window
I know that AltSnap has a feature to make a window borderless, Hold ALT and middle click and click toggle borderless.
- AltSnap : move and resize windows by using the Alt key and so much more
QuickLook
Posts with mentions or reviews of QuickLook.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-30.
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IrfanView
Always have to install Quicklook on my windows machines, too used to it on Mac
https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
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Powertoys Peek - does this feature need to be included natively in future version of Windows?
yes
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PowerToys Release 0.70 with Mouse Without Borders and PowerToys Peek
I meant this one
I hope you can look at the features of QuickLook because like the guy above said, it's currently vastly superior :)
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How do you all feel about Windows?
There is QuickLook for Windows although is not as good as the macOS one: https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
- Preview exel and word without have it installed, like a pdf file, no edition, just to visualise.
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Whatever happened to Peek for Powertoys?
You can use QuickLook in the meantime.
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Lightweight, offline, documents viewer (mainly PDF, PPT, Word)
QuickLook is pretty useful. It is basically the Windows Version of MAC's QuickLook.
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File-Explorer that can display Readme.md files.
I've been using QuickLook for years, functions just like Preview in macOS (hitting the spacebar after selecting a file pops open a window with the content): https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
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Photoshop shows different colors and my gradients are ruined, all of this happened overnight. But everywhere else, the file preview's colors are correct. Do you know any reason? Is this related to the Pantone thing?
Why does the Quicklook app show the correct colors and photoshop doesn't?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing AltSnap and QuickLook you can also consider the following projects:
PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
streamdeck-tools - The Stream Deck Tools library wraps all the communication with the Stream Deck app, allowing you to focus on actually writing the Plugin's logic
SylphyHorn - Virtual Desktop Tools for Windows 10.
qView - Practical and minimal image viewer
linux
ScreenToGif - 🎬 ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video.
Tiling-Assistant - An extension which adds a Windows-like snap assist to GNOME. It also expands GNOME's 2 column tiling layout.
AutoEq - Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses
altdrag - :file_folder: Easily drag windows when pressing the alt key. (Windows)
Windows10Debloater - Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.