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You can even choose a custom background should you not like the ones that LaunchBar Commander ships with.

Next, choose the background you want, set its color and transparency. You can also set the dock to autohide, autoslide or reserve a space for it. Select a display style for the icons, menu, and border (optional). Click on the 'Add Node' menu button (or right-click on a dock > Insert) and select 'Add child - Dock': you may rename it to what you want.

Shortcuts that you place in the dock are called Nodes. You can customize the pre-made dock or create your own. Undocking restores the panel to its original size. This brings up the LaunchBar Commander settings window, that you can use to customize the dock. Right-click the tray icon and select preferences. Left-click on the tray icon to access the shortcuts that were on the dock are available from the tray. Hitting the close button minimizes the program to the system tray.

You can drag the docked panel to any of the four sides of the screen. One of the options includes the ability to dock the panel, i.e., place it on the edge of the screen. This has a few options to resize, center, rebuild the bar. Right-click inside the dock to view its context-menu. The program plays a sound when you click on a button which you can disable in the options. This is pretty useful for opening files quickly without having to navigate around in Explorer or opening Control Panel or the Start Menu. The Control Panel menu lists all the options available in Windows' namesake, the Documents menu displays links to files in your Documents folder, and so on. Clicking one of the buttons opens up a menu with the contents of the selected option. The Dock has 4 buttons: Control Panel, Documents, Start Menu and a Sample Menu. This is a floating panel, so you can drag it around the screen.

A small panel titled 'My First Dock' will open, click on the edges to resize it. Upon running it for the first time, you will be greeted by a message that says the program is donation ware (made by Mouser, a popular DonationCoder developer).

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So I’m trying it out, without spending hours porting my config.LaunchBar Commander is a free application that's similar and offers a lot of customization options on top of that. If they just charged $29/yr going forward I would trust it a lot more. I don’t trust that Raycast will be available in this form in the future. I’m assuming there’s a reason for that obviously, the investors have information that I don’t have, and it’s quite possible that there’s a pivot coming. kthxbye!”, and you’ll see right away that you’re able to make smoother extensions and possibly do things that aren’t possible with Alfred.īUT it runs the extensions in Node, which is non-ideal due to bloat and slowness.Īnd I can’t find any extensions that do things that Alfred can’t do…Īnd why would I need to make a Pull Request to the main Raycast repo in order to publish an extension? Wouldn’t it be better to make a PR with some metadata linking to my own repo? I feel like that’s TOO centralized.Īlso, the business plan makes NO sense. You can in fact use them to build an entire user interface if your want - or you can skip them entirely and just provide text to be output.Ĭompare that to Alfred, which is like “these are the arguments. Raycast has a very good API with complete models for the important components you would need to make an extension. I just installed Raycast, and the speed is impressive, but I feel like if I imported everything I have in Alfred over to Raycast, the speed might suffer.

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