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QuickLook
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PowerToys Release 0.70 with Mouse Without Borders and PowerToys Peek
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
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Whatever happened to Peek for Powertoys?
You can use QuickLook in the meantime.
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What's the best feature Apple has ever made?
Luckily, there's a fantastic open source implementation of Quick Look for Windows: https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
There's a Windows software for it though: https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
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A Guide to Addiction
QuickLook: to preview all types of files by pressing the spacebar in Windows explorer (Mac style). Open-source.
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Pain in the ass
There're more plugins to support even more file extensions.
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[List] Let's talk about the software you can't live without. Here is my list
QuickLook - quick file viewer, you can focus on a file while in a folder and press the spacebar and this program will show its contents depending on the file type (Free • Open Source)
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PowerToys – 11 features Microsoft won’t add to Windows
This reminds me of one of my favorite features from the Mac's Finder: Quick Look — press space to quickly bring up a contextual preview window of the selected document.
You can bring it to the Windows Explorer with this useful open source tool: https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
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Looking for a File Manager that can preview EXCEL, WORD and PDF files.
I tried Quicklook. It is much faster and has easy to install plugins, for example to view Office documents even without having them installed. I saw in its Wiki page that it can be integrated with TotalCommander, I wonder if this is also the case with FreeCommander. Do you have any idea how to do it? Thanks.
linux
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Linux Mint Working on Wayland Support
It's actually incredibly useful to have apps like window managers or apps that rely on manipulating user input like xcape read another apps data. In fact such are still possible just 10x as complicated as they now involve writing awful little programs in some combination of c and yaml instead of a dead simple single line shell invocation of a program.
See https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools
The fact that this can work at all seems to suggest that its just as possible for malicious code running as user to compromise your security and the only thing actually broken is useful apps.
- Mapping Caps-Lock to Esc is life changing
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What's a very simple config change that you can't live without?
Having both is a game-changer. Depends on your OS. On Mac, I use Karabiner. Linux I used use caps2esc and on Windows I use a custom AutoHotKey.
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Emacs-written novel on the German bestseller list
Before that I had used interception tools for key rebindings, which relied on the udevmon service to intercept keypress events, and thus even works in a TTY terminal, not requiring a window manager. I use vim keybindings in Emacs and for that I found it useful to rebind ESC to CTRL if tapped, but it still acts as CTRL when held (now I have implemented that in my keyboard firmware).
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TUTORIAL: Making Caps do both Control and Esc like Caps2Esc, but with only hyprland+ydotool
Caps2Esc is a very useful input remapping utility: it turns the Caps key into either Esc or Control depending on how it's used: - if the Caps key is released before another key is pressed, it emits Esc - If the Caps key is used in chording mode, like by pressing Caps and C, it emits Control, to send Control-C
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advice on keyboard remapping sofware in linux
https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools is another software to consider in the area of remapping keys. I don't think any of its existing plugins are context-aware enough for your window/program based functions, but maybe you could write your own plugins to achieve that?
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Is there a way that I can make Caps Lock behave like the Mod key when pressed with another key but behave like Caps Lock (as it does by default) if just pressed and released?
Also, I found this while following the thread which offers some more interesting tools on top of what I'm looking for: https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools
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is it safe to use Caps2Esc with ErgoDox?
Prior to my ErgoDox days, I had Caps2Esc on a crappy keyboard and this one key worked great. So I'm thinking of setting that key in my Oryx config on configure.zsa.io back to capslock so I can get that key flawless by using Caps2Esc for it.
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xbindkeys ofter lock-event (Suspend)
Consider using keyd, Interception Tools, or kmonad. They work everywhere and don't break if you look at them funny like xbindkeys and friends.
- Vim Foot Pedal
What are some alternatives?
Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas
PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
SylphyHorn - Virtual Desktop Tools for Windows 10.
keyd - A key remapping daemon for linux.
kinto - Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux & Windows.
xcape - Linux utility to configure modifier keys to act as other keys when pressed and released on their own.
Mailspring-Libre - (archived) Mailspring Libre build – aiming at removing Mailspring's dependecy on a central server
qView - Practical and minimal image viewer
AutoEq - Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses
key-mapper - 🎮 An easy to use tool to change the mapping of your input device buttons. [Moved to: https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper]
god-mode - Minor mode for God-like command entering
kmonad - An advanced keyboard manager [Moved to: https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad]