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🎉 New Features in 1.9

• All New Design. New Themes, New Setting Window. Animation & Sound Effect, Color Scheme aka Dark Mode.
• New Plugins, Plugin Store, Game Mode, Wizard window
• Full changelog

Getting Started • Features • Plugins • Hotkeys • Questions/Suggestions • Development • Docs

🚗 Getting Started

Installation

Windows 7+ installer	Portable	WinGet install "Flow Launcher"

Windows may complain about security due to code not being signed, this will be completed at a later stage. If you downloaded from this repo, you are good to continue the set up.

And you can download early access version.

🎁 Features

Applications & Files

• Search for files or their contents.

• Support search using environment variable paths.

Web Search & Open URL

Browser Bookmarks

System Commands

• Provides System related commands. shutdown, lock, settings, etc.
• System command list

Calculator

• Do mathematical calculations and copy the result to clipboard.

Shell Command

• Run batch and PowerShell commands as Administrator or a different user.
• Ctrl+Enter to Run as Administrator.

Explorer

• Save file or folder locations for quick access.

Window Setting & Control Panel

• Search within Window Settings & Control Panel.

Priority

• Prioritise the order of each plugin's results.

Customization

• Window size adjustment, animation, and sound
• Color Scheme (aka Dark Mode)

• There are various themes and you can make it yourself.

💬 Language

• Support languages from Chinese to Italian and more.
• Support Pinyin.
• Translation support this project in Crowdin

Portable

• Fully portable.
• Type flow user data to open your saved user settings folder. They are located at:
  • If using roaming: %APPDATA%\FlowLauncher
  • If using portable, by default: %localappdata%\FlowLauncher\app-<VersionOfYourFlowLauncher>\UserData
  • Type open log location to open your logs folder, they are saved along with your user settings folder.

🎮 Game Mode

• Suspend the hotkey when you are playing games.

📦 Plugins

• Support wide range of plugins. Visit here for our plugin portfolio.
• Publish your own plugin to flow! Create plugins in:

Everything

SpotifyPremium

Steam Search

Clipboard History

Home Assistant Commander

Colors

Github

Window Walker

......and more!

🛒 Plugin Store

• You can view the full plugin list or quickly install a plugin via the Plugin Store menu in Settings

• or type pm install/uninstall/update + the plugin name in the search window,

⌨️ Hotkeys

Hotkey	Description
Alt+ Space	Open Search Box (Default and Configurable)
Enter	Execute
Ctrl+Shift+Enter	Run As Admin
↑↓	Scroll up & Down
←→	Back to Result / Open Context Menu
Ctrl +o , Shift +Enter	Open Context Menu
Tab	Autocomplete
Esc	Back to Result & Close
Ctrl +i	Open Setting Window
F5	Reload All Plugin Data & Window Search Index
Ctrl + h	Open Query History

System Command List

Command	Description
Shutdown	Shutdown computer
Restart	Restart computer
Restart with advance	Restart the computer with Advanced Boot option for safe and debugging modes
Log off	Log off
Lock	Lock computer
Sleep	Put computer to sleep
Hibernate	Hibernate computer
Empty Recycle Bin	Empty recycle bin
Exit	Close Flow Launcher
Save Settings	Save all Flow Launcher settings
Restart Flow Launcher	Restart Flow Launcher
Settings	Tweak this app
Reload Plugin Data	Refreshes plugin data with new content
Check For Update	Check for new Flow Launcher update
Open Log Location	Open Flow Launcher's log location
Flow Launcher Tip	Visit Flow Launcher's documentation for more help and how to use tips
Flow Launcher UserData	Open the location where Flow Launcher's settings are stored

💁‍♂️ Tips

• More tips

❔ Questions/Suggestions

Yes please, let us know in the Q&A section. Join our community on Discord!

Development

Status

Flow is under heavy development, but the code base is stable, so contributions are very welcome. If you would like to help maintain it, please do not hesistate to get in touch.

Contributing

We welcome all contributions. If you are unsure of a change you want to make, let us know in the Discussions, otherwise feel free to put in a pull request.

You will find the main goals of flow placed under the Projects board, so feel free to contribute on that. If you would like to make small incremental changes, feel free to do so as well.

Get in touch if you like to join the Flow-Launcher Team and help build this great tool.

Developing/Debugging

• Flow Launcher's target framework is .Net 5

• Install Visual Studio 2019

• Install .Net 5 SDK via Visual Studio installer or manually from here