Quickly launch any Windows, MacOS, or Linux application right from VS Code! Assign favorites and keyboard shortcuts to access your most commonly used applications with ease.
🚀 Launch Applications: Launch any application on your machine from VS Code.
⚙️ Add Custom Applications: Add individual custom applications that are not found in the application directories.
🌟 Assign Favorites: Assign favorites to easily find your most commonly used applications.
⌨️ Assign Keyboard Shortcuts: Assign keyboard shortcuts to individual applications to quickly launch them.
✏️ Configure Application Directories & Extensions: Configure the directories and extensions that will be used to searched for applications.
Getting Started
To launch any application, you have 3 options:
Click Launch on an application.
Click Search for Applications to browse.
Use Launch Application from the command palette to also browse.
To add custom applications, click Add... > Custom Applications. These will be denoted in green with a ⚙️ badge.
To assign favorites, click Favorite on an application. These will be denoted in yellow with a ⭐ badge or even blue with a 🚀 badge if they are also custom applications.
To assign keyboard shortcuts, click Assign Keyboard Shortcut on an application.
To configure application directories or extensions click Add... > Application Directories or Application Extensions.
Extension Settings
Listed below are all the extension settings which can be configured from using the extension or directly through the VS Code settings page by searching @ext:SanjulaGanepola.quick-launch:
Setting
Description
QuickLaunch.applicationDirectories
The directories to search for applications.
QuickLaunch.applicationExtensions
The possible file extensions for applications.
QuickLaunch.customApplications
A user-maintained set of custom applications.
QuickLaunch.favoriteApplications
The names of your favorite applications.
QuickLaunch.sort
Controls what order the applications are sorted in.
Priority: Applications are sorted based on priority. Favorite applications are rendered first, followed by custom applications, and lastly other applications. Applications which are both favorites and custom will take the highest position in the list.
Alphabetically: Applications are sorted alphabetically by name.
QuickLaunch.view
Controls which applications are displayed.
Favorites: Display favorite applications.
Customs: Display custom applications.
Other: Display other applications.
Bugs and Feature Requests
Feel free to share any bugs or feature requests in the project's GitHub Issues page.
Contribution
Contributions are always welcome! Please see our contributing guide for more details.
