wox's Introduction

NOTE

This project will not be maintained by @happlebao for about 2 month due to personal reason.

WoX

WoX is a launcher for Windows that simply works. It's an alternative to Alfred and Launchy. You can call it Windows omni-eXecutor if you want a long name.

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
- yyy / wangyiyun → 网易云音乐
Keyword plugin search
- search google with g search_term
Build custom themes at http://www.getwox.com/theme/builder
Install plugins from http://www.getwox.com/plugin

Installation

Download Wox-xxx.exe from releases. Latest as of now is 1.3.183

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

Versions marked as pre-release are unstable pre-release versions.

Requirements:
- .net >= 4.5.2
- everything: .exe installer + use x64 if your windows is x64 + everything service is running
- python3: .exe installer + add it to %PATH% or set it in WoX settings

Usage

Launch: Alt+Space
Install/Uninstall plugin: type wpm install/uninstall
Reset: delete %APPDATA%\Wox
Log: %APPDATA%\Wox\Logs

Contribution

First and most importantly, star it!
Read Coding Style
Send PR to dev branch
I'd appreciate if you could solve help_needed labeled issue
Don't hesitate to ask questions in the issues

Build

Install Visual Studio 2015 and tick all Windows 10 sdk options
Open powershell with admin permission and Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser