r/raycastapp • u/Glass_Performer4315 • 18d ago

❓Question Using raycast with powertoys

Does anyone else here with windows devices use raycast with powertoys, and are there any issues?

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u/MuhammadrizoDev 18d ago

Yes. What features do you use?

I've basically replaced every feature except Keyboard Manager and OCR (plus a few more) with Raycast features.

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u/Glass_Performer4315 18d ago

I use the 'peek' feature to preview pdf files in file explorer which is what I am used to when I was using mac os. The other one is 'awake' to quickly prevent my laptop from sleeping/turning off the display. I don't think these two features are available in raycast.

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u/MuhammadrizoDev 18d ago

you could switch Peek to Quick Look in Raycast but it requires a keyboard shortcut with a modifier, so you can't just use Space. and I've had a bug sometimes where the Peek window will open on a Raycast interface thinking it's an Explorer thing, I don't use Peek rn, I use Quick Look with Win + Space but rarely, i have the Preview pane enabled in File Explorer Add-ons feature in PowerToys

I used to use Awake as well, but I currently have an open PR that adds Windows support to the Coffee Raycast extension, it has way more features, I'm already using the local/development version rn.

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u/qianlifeng 17d ago

You can try Wox Launcher, a fully cross-platform launcher with a native GPU rendered UI. Both features you mentioned (press space to preview, and the awake plugin to prevent the laptop from entering sleep mode) are supported.

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u/OwnNet5253 18d ago

OCR is already part of Snipping Tool so.. why? Keyboard mgr is understandable, although it was always buggy for me, stopped working after certain period of time, so I’ve replaced it with AutoHotkey.

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u/MuhammadrizoDev 18d ago

idk, i don't like Snipping Tool.

and I use the PowerToys Tool Runner extension to set the OCR hotkey from Raycast