Google-Assistant-Unofficial-Desktop-Client VS ModernFlyouts

There is Alexa for windows, and Google Assistant (Unofficial, discontinued afaik).

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Oh yea Here: https://github.com/Melvin-Abraham/Google-Assistant-Unofficial-Desktop-Client Some features doesn't work but I still find it slightly usefull.

Though it doesn't directly assist here, you could always go the native route: https://github.com/Melvin-Abraham/Google-Assistant-Unofficial-Desktop-Client

Technically possible without. Good enough to control the lights in my home at least

No, you don't have to compile the code, there are downloadable .exe , .dmg., .deb files for Windows, macOS, and Linux respectively on the release page here .

Here's the link to the original project on GitHub - Google-Assistant-Unofficial-Desktop-Client , I'm using this for a week, and it comes very handy when I had to search for something, or control any device while studying, so I don't have to look for my phone.

Here you go!

You could use modern flyout. It allows you to increase or decrease (also to 0) the number active of media sessions displayed.

If you don't want to mess around with any of your program's settings, you can install ModernFlyouts and change its' settings to never show any popups.

It's called Modern Flyouts. Link here: https://modernflyouts-community.github.io/

Check out ModernFlyouts, it offers an alternative to the banner by replacing it with one you can customize. Fade duration being one of them

Modern​Flyouts for better looking flyouts for volume and media

This may not be the perfect fix you are looking for, but I faced the same problem as you (wanted flyouts but also wanted explorerpatcher for other functionality that it brought), and my solution was to use ModernFlyouts (link here)

You can try ModernFlyouts, it has a few customization options so maybe you can get a more minimal experience that way https://modernflyouts-community.github.io/