Fluent-Search VS ExplorerPatcher

Then found https://github.com/adirh3/Fluent-Search/issues/850

Nope.

Maybe it's Wox (https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox) which is no longer maintained. Out of all these Spotlight alternatives, I think Fluent search is the best https://github.com/adirh3/Fluent-Search

A bit more about mouseless navigation is here - https://fluentsearch.net/posts/no-more-mouse

You could make plugins - https://fluentsearch.net/posts/c-plugins-developer-guide

A hawk eye view of list of features - https://fluentsearch.net/posts/fluent-search-features-guide

Github repo if you delve deep - https://github.com/adirh3/Fluent-Search

You can also search browser tabs, in-app content, files and more. Settings are insanely customizable.

A case study done on it - https://tolgee.io/blog/case-study-fluent-search

Avolonia UI itself does an interview - https://twitter.com/AvaloniaUI/status/1492277669618229252

You can do macros and more with it - https://fluentsearch.net/posts/fluent-search-tasks-nightly-t...

All of this is done single handedly by @adirh3

Hidden gems of features are elaborated in changelog blog posts.

+1 for Fluent Search Fluent search github

Fluent Search and Everything

Try Fluent Search (https://github.com/adirh3/Fluent-Search). In addition to being a search utility (similar to Mac Spotlight), it has a feature called "search in-app using search screen hotkey" activated by CTRL+M. Sounds like what you're looking for.

Is this the right github repo? I can only see Issues.

Search like Spotlight: https://github.com/adirh3/Fluent-Search/

You can use https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher to change the hotkey

> Windows 11 brings absolutely nothing on the table

It also removes a leg from the table, the one labelled 'usability'.

Attaching a 3rd-party leg to fill the gap helps (https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher), but it's not an ideal solution

ExplorerPatcher

I had more problems with it being wide, merging all app windows in a single icon, showing only icon rather then app title, and not being able to move to top of screen

That may be fixed with https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher which restores win10 bar, there's no builtin solution to any of the above afaik

Thanks for letting me know. I looked into it, and apparently it's still even possible to activate on later versions of Windows with registry edits and helper software: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/discussions/167

Not going to install something that seems so vague, but I do use ExplorerPatcher [1] on my Windows 11 machines to basically re-create Windows 10 UI and fix all of the annoyances I have with Windows 11. I've got the old right click menu, the old task bar, the old alt-tab interface, pretty much the whole thing. Only reason I use Windows 11 over Windows 10 is because Windows 11 seems to handle my triple monitor setup better, especially when waking up from sleep.

[1] - https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher