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Bug fix: #25656 Sorry, didn't see this until I already did work for it...
crutaks: this has a fix in
Hello, I would like to propose and work on a new feature, which is opening start menu on "monitor with mouse cursor" just like "PowerToys Run" - "Preferred monitor position" option has. Need a bit of guidance and I'll be right on it.
TL;DR: Is there any interest in implementing a multimonitor-supported Hot Corners feature?
TL: I've created Hawt Koners Tool (https://github.com/geektbee/hawtkoners), a multimonitor-supported Hot Corners script via PowerShell (because PowerShell is what I've used most in automations in my life and work). Every Windows Hot Corners app I could find would only ever allow for configuring 4 corners, and only 4 corners. I have 3 monitors, and thought that should be 12 configurable corners. Not finding any app that could compensate for a varying amount of screens, I decided to pursue HKT. I now use HKT to activate some PowerToys hotkey combinations (b/c I have a poor memory, can't remember them, and don't think about them frequently enough), like Mouse Highlighter, Mouse Crosshairs, Mouse Spotlight, etc, and well as the Win+Tab feature, to start my screensaver, and open even simply open the Start Menu.
Now, I know PowerToys uses and combination of C++, C#, and C. Since PowerShell was created with C#, I'm wondering if I should attempt to pursue learning any of those and offering to re-write HKT in such a way that it could be part of PowerToys. Is a hot corners app a need? Is a hot corners app a highly desired want? What is the interest level here? How can we find that out?
Thanks!
@crutkas If we have such an issue we should either lock conversation or we have to look every x days for new contribution requests. (It seems that there is now one who answers the contribution requests here, except me.) Maybe we have to update the bot trigger.
@fredso90 - please do - #20718 Find my mouse: set spotlight duration
@Dub1shu
- please do, looks like you have a PR on https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pull/30776. Great!
@ckirby19 - please do #26640 - Document Mouse Without Borders status colors
@ckirby19 - please do #15280 - Always on Top doesn't have an icon on TaskManager
@nagolucky18 - please do #23358- Default mode for screen ruler
@nagolucky18 - please do #26755- Peek Peek.UI persists as a media player
@akraa - please do - #24978 Add support for 'nmi'
@CoreyHayward thanks for the PR on https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/18435!
@TheBiggestOfBoys - for https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/22686, I put some comments in the issue
I would like to help on the quick accent feature. For example, the number subscripts and superscript are bundled in with Portuguese and only Portuguese, even though all the other number modifiers are under AllLanguagesOnly. It's the only language with number modifiers. I would also add parity with other logical symbols.
In Quick Accent, I'd like to replace the minus-plus symbol with plus-minus in the list of symbols accessible via the plus key. This general idea is discussed in #27287.
Minus-plus (U+2213) is currently available via both the plus and minus keys. Plus-minus (U+00B1) is only accessible through the comma key despite being far more common/useful. I would remove minus-plus from the plus key's list and replace it with plus-minus. Minus-plus would still be available via the minus key.
Since it's such a trivial change, I've done it in commit a186e57 in my repo. Not tested yet, but I'll probably be building this soon in the course of further customizing the available characters. (In fact, configurable symbol lists is something I might want to work on.)
@LaurensHolthof You beat me to it. I was also wondering why they were in Portuguese. (Been there since it was added in 87720ef).
@throwaway96 you might as well add the fix for sub and superscripts to your fork, it would be unnecessary for the both of us to try and fix something when you already have a pr for something else within the same file :).
Hello, I'd like to add two characters to Quick Accent
- For the P key, the paragraph symbol: (ΒΆ) #30592
- For the E key, Latin small letter E with breve (Δ) #30417 (though I don't know what language this should be added to, the issue doesn't mention that)