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Search apps

Lighto edited this page Mar 19, 2022 · 1 revision

Search apps

When searching through Fluent Search you will see various results, like files, apps, web results and many more.
These results are provided by the search apps, each application can search in different resources of your computer.

Default search apps

Fluent Search will come with these search apps by default -

  • Files
  • Web

Configuring search apps

Search app settings

Each search application provides you with the option to customize it in Settings, a search app will always have the Application section for settings.

Enable/disable

You can enable or disable search apps simply by toggle the Search with App switch in the app's page.
When disabled, Fluent Search will stop searching using that app and stop suggesting search tags from it.

Search tag only

Enable to make Fluent Search use that search app only when a search tag is provided.

Search hotkey

Set a hotkey to open Fluent Search and search only using that search app.
This can be useful when wanting to quickly filter results for specific scenario.

Operation hotkeys

operation hotkey screenshot

Set a hotkey to invoke a operation when a result is in focus.
For example, press Ctrl+2 to open the parent folder of a file.