PowerToys – 11 features Microsoft won’t add to Windows

• PowerToys

  713 104,324 9.8 C#

  Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

  

PowerToys is great, in particular PowerToys Run.

I'd use PowerToys Color Picker more, but it lacks contrast ratios/accessibility information, which is where it would be most useful to me. It was suggested on their GitHub but didn't gain much traction:

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/9357

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/14454

9 times out of 10, I am getting color information to run these exact checks, so it would just save an extra step.

• UltrawideWindows

  14 184 5.7 JavaScript

  KWin script to move windows quickly

A few months ago I tried a few KDE kwin scripts.

Ultimately I went with 'Ultrawide Windows' [1], mostly because I like it better than the defaults and at the same time it is still simple to use. The Github page gives an impression of its capabilities and lists the hotkeys, but it is also available via the KDE integrated tools [2]. What I am still missing is a tool to simply define and use custom layouts.

[1] https://github.com/lucmos/UltrawideWindows/

[2] https://store.kde.org/p/1276605/

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• QuickLook

  69 16,191 3.6 C#

  Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature 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

• komorebi

  97 6,605 9.4 Rust

  A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉

• rofi

  152 12,404 8.6 C

  Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

  

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/

• i3

  200 9,053 7.6 C

  A tiling window manager for X11

  

No, i3 is a full, graphical, window manager, for graphical applications.

https://i3wm.org/

As GP said, by default, it's automatic, so there are no pre-defined "zones". But it can be scripted to do quite a lot of things.

• glazewm

  28 3,367 8.2 C#

  GlazeWM is a tiling window manager for Windows inspired by i3 and Polybar.

  

• InfluxDB

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• MouseUnSnag

  2 134 0.0 C#

  On a Windows system with multiple monitors, allow the mouse to move freely and not get stuck on corners or edges. (by MouseUnSnag)

  

If you use multiple screens and your mouse gets stuck in the corners, I recommend https://github.com/MouseUnSnag/MouseUnSnag

• LaunchyQt

  3 382 7.3 C++

  :rocket: Launchy project reactivated. Get the familiar feeling now!

• hn-search

  1,618 524 2.9 TypeScript

  Hacker News Search

  

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

• ueli

  29 3,378 9.8 TypeScript

  Keystroke launcher for Windows, macOS and Linux

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.

Suggest a related project