Keypirinha: A fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows

Re:Keypirinha: A fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows by demetris on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @07:23AM (#39026743)

For frequently used apps, I do what eviks says.

It’s a solution that annoys me as an idea, but it’s the only thing I have found that works for me. I have about 20 individual AutoHotkey scripts that are named GO TO <application name> and that go like this:

  SetTitleMatchMode 2

  if (not WinExist("Mozilla Firefox ahk_class MozillaWindowClass")) {
    Run A_ProgramFiles . "\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
  } else {
    WinActivate
  }

  Return

I also have individual LNK files that target the AutoHotkey scripts, so that you can run the scripts from any launcher. Here is how it looks in PowerToys Run:

https://op111.net/images/20240117-powertoys-run-autohotkey-s...

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Re:Keypirinha: A fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows by csdvrx on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:48AM (#39030177)

I did the same thing on Windows, and when I recently moved to linux, I upped my game with Hyprland workspaces:

- if the window doesn't exist, open it (*)

- if the window exists, change focus to it (*)

- (*): on it own workspace, which allows me to run windows in full screen mode, without a title bar wasting space!

The workspaces are configured by a set of rules (ex: I have mozilla|firefox|edge => go to workspace #2 for browsers)

Hyprland is both a tiling and a normal window manager, so you can make a window either. I'm running one terminal in quake mode, with what's called a special workspace

I added a few dedicated keys:

- F2: send me to workspace #2

- Win+F2: reassign the window to workspace #2, say if I want to have a text editor to take notes while reading a page

- Win+Shift+Arrows: resize the tile, because I want a lot of space for the browser and not so much for the editor

- Win+J: toggle the tile, because I want the text editor at the bottom (or top) of the screen, not on the left (or the right)

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