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Tiling Window Manager for Windows
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Shortcuts for program starts #206

Open JamesLarkinWhite opened 5 years ago

JamesLarkinWhite commented 5 years ago

Dear all As you might guess from this question i am a very novice user. At the moment i strat programs exlcusively from the windows Startmenu or the desktop and hide the status bar afterwards. This defeats the purpose of a tiling windows manger a little. How am i supposed to start sofwater when i use bug.n? Can i created shortcuts to cmd/explorer etc? A small hint would be very nice.

jimpriest commented 5 years ago

I use a keyboard launcher - CTRL+SPACE pops up a window, I type Fire..., Firefox pops up and I hit enter. https://lifehacker.com/the-best-application-launcher-for-windows-5835770

Setup a rule to always force the popup to float.

joten commented 5 years ago

You may use the means provided by Windows (Autostart or Task Scheduler) to start programs, or you may use AutoHotkey, either with a separate script or by running bug.n as an AutoHotkey script after editing Config.ahk (as described in the AutoHotkey doc with hotkeys and the runcommand) or by editing bug.n's Config.ini adding lines like the following: Config_hotkey=#^n::Run, notepad

jimpriest commented 5 years ago

Ohhh I didn't know you could do that in the config... though it makes sense. I can mimic my i3 shortcuts with that maybe :)

JamesLarkinWhite commented 5 years ago

Thank you!