Runny – Smallest Footprint Launcher Ever!
Runny is a project of mine which is similar to the quick launch command programs such as Launchy and Gnome Do but uses the built in capabilities of windows instead of running background processes.
For about six years now I’ve used a kind of poor-man’s unix by running commands straight from my Window’s Run box. I would make shortcuts to commonly used programs rename them to something small and simple and put them into a directory that’s referenced in my environment PATH. It worked really well and I never really thought much about it.
It wasn’t until Launchy and Gnome Do (both are amazing) and others started getting big that I thought this might be a “thing”. So I cleaned up my scripts, added supporting functions for clipboard management, twitter posting and text clips and packaged them into an easy installer.
It’s definitely limited but gives complete control over what the commands are and what they do and can even be run side-by-side with other launchers.
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