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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR window shrinks over time
« on: May 03, 2011, 04:53 AM »
thanks mouser
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One thing you could try as a workaround in the meantime is go to the "General" options tab in FARR, and try changing the checkbox for "Always launch shortcuts directly" and "Use document launch helper" and the Launch Method drop down. See if any of those help.-mouser (April 05, 2011, 02:32 AM)
Using Alias Action Keywords
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A new feature with FARR version 2 is the ability to specify alias names in your search string using the + prefix (just like keyword modifiers).
When an alias name is specified in this way, anywhere on the search string, it does not effect search, but it will cause the alias results to be displayed AFTER the result file is selected, with the selected file name as argument $$1 in the alias.
In this way, you can perform a normal file/folder search and then launch a specific alias command with that file/folder as an ARGUMENT.
For example, you could create an alias named +hexedit
whose result contents are:
C:\Program Files\HexEditors\HexEdit.exe "$$1"
Now you can type in your search:
+hexedit mydocsearch...
As you type mydocsearch words, FARR will let you search for files as normal.
After you choose the result, instead of launching the result file, you will be presented with
C:\Program Files\HexEditors\HexEdit.exe "SELECTEDFILE"
Which you can then launch.
NOTE:
You can use the same keyword for both alias names and search/scoring keyword modifiers.
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Unlike other virtual desktop utilities that implement their desktops by showing the windows that are active on a desktop and hiding the rest, Sysinternals Desktops uses a Windows desktop object for each desktop. Application windows are bound to a desktop object when they are created, so Windows maintains the connection between windows and desktops and knows which ones to show when you switch a desktop. That making Sysinternals Desktops very lightweight and free from bugs that the other approach is prone to where their view of active windows becomes inconsistent with the visible windows.
Desktops reliance on Windows desktop objects means that it cannot provide some of the functionality of other virtual desktop utilities, however. For example, Windows doesn't provide a way to move a window from one desktop object to another, and because a separate Explorer process must run on each desktop to provide a taskbar and start menu, most tray applications are only visible on the first desktop. Further, there is no way to delete a desktop object, so Desktops does not provide a way to close a desktop, because that would result in orphaned windows and processes. The recommended way to exit Desktops is therefore to logoff.
SO.. it sounds to me like Desktops is a very strange virtual desktop tool. I think the best solution to the FARR problem might be in fact to stop using Desktops and start using something like VirtuaWin or Dexpot, or another "normal" virtual desktop tool.-mouser (September 10, 2010, 03:18 AM)
In addition to the everything plugins you can also use a FARR alias to quickly open a separate Everything window with a search phrase. I use two spaces at the end of a FARR searchphrase as regex pattern. Very handy as you can first search with FARR and, if what you're looking for isn't found in a second or two, just tap space space.
regular expression pattern box:
^(.*)\s\s$
Results box:
Everything Search: $$1 | dolaunch C:\Program files\Everything\Everything.exe -search "$$1"
(modify the path to fit your installation directory)-Nod5 (July 23, 2010, 04:26 PM)
I use Ctrl+`. It's quite convenient as it does not require looking at the keyboard (I could not do e.g. Win + function or Pause like that) and still does not interfere with my more frequently used shortcuts (I use it a lot, but not as often as my "work" cuts).
I might be a bit obsessive about it, but I don't like to move my fingers from where they belong, i.e. the home keys (yes, I know, the sentence just invites all those NSFW comments). As my work requires quite a lot of typing - I am a translator - I prefer to have everything close to my fingertips. In my work applications I have most of the commands available as Left Alt + home-or-near-home keys, i.e. JKL;UIOPNM (<- that was easy to type
Sorry for that aside, but I think it's still on the topic, considering that FARR is all about eliminating that productivity-killing monster i.e. mouse + desktop, menus etc.-Jabberwock (July 15, 2010, 03:43 AM)