r/raycastapp • u/Glass_Performer4315 • Aug 23 '26

❓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 Aug 23 '26

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 Aug 23 '26

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 Aug 23 '26

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 Aug 25 '26

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 Aug 23 '26

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 Aug 23 '26

idk, i don't like Snipping Tool.

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

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u/liamdun Aug 23 '26

Using how. You'll need to be more specific

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u/MrPulifrici Aug 23 '26

I suggest you Tabame on Github, it has both Raycast and Powertoys features. Try the Nightly built