samcai/wox

An effective launcher for windows

Wox

Wox is an effective launcher for windows, which was inspired by Alfred and Launchy. Wox provide bundles of features let you access infomations quickly.

Features

1. Search applications, files (via everything plugin) and chrome bookmarks
2. Search web contents with shortcuts (e.g. search google with g keyword or youtube keyword)
3. Search clipboard history (via clipboard plugin)
4. Themes support, get more themes from http://www.getwox.com/theme
5. Plugin support, get more plugins from http://www.getwox.com/plugin

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Download

Wox 1.0 beta has been released. Check it out!

• Windows XP users: You have to install .NET Framework 3.5 if you have not installed yet.
• Windows 8 users: You have to enable the .NET Framework 3.5 in Control Panel.

Create and Share Plugin

Currently, Wox support using C# and Python to write your plugins. Please refer to Create-plugin page for more infomation. You can share your plugin with WoxPlugins. After you upload your plugin, other uses can download or search your plugin through wpm install <plugin name> command (this is a plugin for plugin management, which is one of the default plugins inside Wox).

Create and Share Theme

Wox provide an online theme editor http://www.getwox.com/themebuilder, you build your own theme for wox.