easy solution here, though its something most people also don't know how to do:
- put the exact list of programs you want to show when farr window pops up inside an alias of your own creation.
- i.e. create a new alias and add the programs you want to it (there are a couple of ways to do this, by right clicking in results, or dragging and dropping into the alias window, or browsing, etc. see help file for more info).
- you can reorder the items in an alias however you want, and you can even provide custom captions for them.
- ok now you have an alias with the programs of your choosing, in the order of your choosing.
- so now to make it show in the farr window each time farr is brought on screen, go to the hotkeys tab and edit the hotkey trigger you normally use (or make a new one just for this), and put the name of the alias in your "Text for Search Edit Box" field. You probably also want to choose "Highlight search edit text" to make it easier to overwrite this default.
- all done!
I will note one thing that has been suggested by others and which i want to add. This method fills the search box with some starting text (the alias name), and then highlights it so you can start typing a new search to override it right away. while not functionally different, some have requested (and i concur) an option that doesnt actually show the initial text in the search box, since that would be a bit cleaner looking. it's on my todo list.
let me know if you get this trick to work!
it's actually a really fun trick to use with FARR if you configure different hotkeys to bring up different starting lists.
ps.
for reallllly advanced FARR users, you could even make an alias show initially which just acted like a list of submenus, each of which showed another list when triggered (see the dosearch special alias command).
