hzhikun / wox

Launcher for Windows, an alternative to Alfred and Launchy.

WoX

WoX is a launcher for Windows that simply works. It's an alternative to Alfred and Launchy.

Features

• Search for everything—applications, UWP, folders, files and more.
• Use pinyin to search for programs / 支持用 拼音 搜索程序
  • wyy / wangyiyun → 网易云音乐
• Keyword plugin search g search_term
• Search youtube, google, twitter and many more
• Build custom themes at http://www.wox.one/theme/builder
• Install plugins from http://www.wox.one/plugin
• Portable mode
• Auto-complete text suggestion
• Highlighting of how results are matched during query search

Installation

• Download from releases.

  • Option 1: download Wox-Full-Installer.*.exe, which include all dependency.
  • Option 2: download Wox.*.exe, which only include wox itself. You may install Everything and Python using below instruction.

• Windows may complain about security due to code not being signed. This will be fixed later.

• Requirements:

  • .NET >= 4.6.2 or Windows version >= 10 1607 (Anniversary Update)
  • [Optional] Integrate with everything
    1. Download .exe installer
    2. Use x64 if your windows is x64
    3. Version >= 1.4.1 is supported
  • [Optional] Use Python plugins
    1. install python3
    2. add it to %PATH% or set it in WoX settings

Usage

• Launch: Alt+Space
• Context Menu: Ctrl+O
• Cancel/Return: Esc
• Install/Uninstall plugin: type wpm install/uninstall
• Reset: delete %APPDATA%\Wox
• Log: %APPDATA%\Wox\Logs

Contribution

• First and most importantly, star it!
• Send PR to master branch
• I'd appreciate if you could solve help_wanted labeled issue

Build

Install Visual Studio 2019 with .NET desktop development and Universal Windows Platform development

Documentation

• Wiki
• Outdated doc: WoX doc.
• Just ask questions in issues for now.

Thanks

I would like to thank

• Raygun for their free crash reporting account.
• JetBrains for Open Source licence.