Getting started. Usage
Wox supports different queries that allow you to do a big variety of things out of the box.
Support for more queries can be added by installing plugins, but for now we will go over the basics.
This page covers the following:
Lets try launching an application as your first query. In this example we will be launching Google Chrome but any application of your choice will work just fine.
Open Wox by using the hotkey, the default hotkey Alt+Space
Type the name of the application into the query bar and hit enter. Your application should be launched now.
Wox supports fuzzy matching for your queries. This means that your query does not need to be 100% accurate in order to be matched. For example, typing in ctrlpnl will match Control Panel, try it now.
To search for a file you can also just input the name of the file that you need. Try searching for some files now.
Thanks to Wox using Everything Search for file searches you can also search for files that are in specific folders, partial file matches, etc.
You can also perform web searches on different websites through Wox as well as get suggestions right from your search engine. For further information please check the Web Search plugin page here.
Wox also supports a contextual menu that reacts different depending on which query result your selection is on.
To open the contextual menu press Shift+Enter on the entry you want the menu on. You can also right click the entry.
To close the contextual menu press Esc.
Contextual menu for "Chrome" (Program plugin)
Contextual menu for "resume.pdf" (Everything Search plugin)
