electronizr

Table of Contents

• Demo
• Quick Tutorial
• Installation
• Features
• Color Themes
• Planned Features
• Current Bugs

An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows

This is an 'alt+space' launcher for Windows because I thought the default Windows 10 search function doesn't always do what I want.

Demo

Quick Tutorial

• Hit alt + space to show/hide the main program
• Start typing a program name you're looking for
• Hit enter to launch the highlighted program
• Use tab/shift+tab to scroll through the search result

Installation

1. Install Node
2. Clone Repo or Download ZIP
3. Install npm packages
   • $ npm install
4. Run gulp build task
   • $ gulp build
5. Run build script
   • $ npm run build
6. Your application is now in the dist/ folder
7. Create a shortcut to electronizr.exe in the windows startup folder (C:\Users\<your-username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup) to run the application on windows logon

Features

• Search while typing
• Launch a program by hitting Enter
• Launch shell commands with a > prefix
  • e.g. >ipconfig /all
• Open a web URL with your default web browser
  • e.g. google.com
• Use Google search function with a g: prefix
  • e.g. g:how can i exit vi
• Use Wikipedia search function with a wiki: prefix
  • e.g. wiki:nissan gtr
• Open Folder or Files with entering a file path
  • e.g. C:\temp or C:\temp\myphoto.jpg
• Different color themes:
  • Dark
  • Light
  • 'Default Windows 10 like'

Default Settings

{
    "theme": "win10",
    "maxResultItems": 10,
    "folders": [
        "C:\\Users\\<your-username>\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu",
        "C:\\Users\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Start Menu"
    ],
    "webSearches": [
        {
            "name": "Google",
            "prefix": "g",
            "url": "google.com/search?q=",
            "fontAwesomeIconClass": "fa-google"
        },
        {
            "name": "Wikipedia",
            "prefix": "w",
            "url": "wikipedia.org/w/?search=",
            "fontAwesomeIconClass": "fa-wikipedia-w"
        },
        {
            "name": "YouTube",
            "prefix": "yt",
            "url": "youtube.com/results?search_query=",
            "fontAwesomeIconClass": "fa-youtube"
        },
        {
            "name": "DuckDuckGo",
            "prefix": "d",
            "url": "duckduckgo.com/?q="
        }
    ]
}

Custom Settings

Just modify the dist/config.json file. If there is no config file run the application once, it should create one.

• Options:
  • theme: [light, dark, win10]
  • maxResultItems: [1-10]
  • foldes: [valid folder paths]

Color Themes

Dark

Light

'Default Windows 10 like'

electronizr specific commands

Command	Description
ezr:reload	Rescan of all Startmenu folders
ezr:config	Open config file
ezr:dark-theme	Load dark theme
ezr:light-theme	Load light theme
ezr:win10-theme	Load Windows 10 theme
exit	Exit the application

Planned Features

• Execution for all shell commands
  • Output will be displayed in the main application window
• Favorite Programs will be listed higher in the search result
• More user customization
  • custom color theme
  • custom folders to search + fileextensions
  • custom search engines
  • custom shortcuts

Current Bugs

• Changing color theme sometimes messes up the styling
  • If that happens you have to exit the application and start it again. This should fix it.