Thruster

Launchy is a free utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, your desktop icons, and your file manager. Launchy indexes and launches your applications, documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!

Thruster is an all in one plugin for Launchy, you don't need any other launchy plugins anymore, I say this because it is true: Thruster is written in Python and Python is simple and flexible, when ideas come to your mind but not available in Launchy, just extend Thruster.py by yourself or send me an request.

Installation

Thruster is available on Windows only.

# Run installer.bat
~> installer.bat

Note 1: You may need to quit Launchy before installation if a Launchy instance is currently running on your system.

Note 2: It's strongly recommended to disable (by unchecking) all other plugins from the config panel to avoid potential conflicts with this plugin.

Features

Search Bookmarks

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Index your browser bookmarks and launch them in Launchy.

After installation, restart Launchy and rebuild catalog, now you will be able to find and launch your bookmarks in Launchy.

Note: Google Chrome is currently the only browser that is supported, but it's quite easy to extend to other browsers.

Web Search

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There are some search engines already integrated with Thruster, to start searching, type the search engine keywords to select the search engine and then type the words to search.

Search Engine Keywords | Search Engine --- | --- gg | Google ii | Bing bb | Baidu so | Stackoverflow ieee | ieeexplore gmap | Google Map bmap | Baidu Map tao | Taobao jd | Jingdong

Calculator

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Type "Calculator" to select the calculator and then press "Tab" to start to type the expression, the result will be displayed in drop down list in format of decimal, binary, hexadecimal, octal, and human readable disk size.

Any legal python math expressions are supported.

Shortcuts Support

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Some shortcuts are pre-defined.

Shortcuts | Description --- | --- "S-Enter" | Open the select file/directory in TotalCommander right panel "C-Enter" | Open the select file/directory in TotalCommander left panel "M-Enter" | Open the select file in gvim.exe

TotalCommander and gvim should be in OS searching path.