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File manager context with Windows explorer sometimes not active

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Task-Manager: grafik

The first was opened via Open ~/talon and the second via This PC. explorer.exe activates the file manager context, Explorer.EXE does not.

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  • State:closed
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

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knausj85commented, Jul 19, 2021

I have added the new application name, thanks for testing it. It might be worth writing up a bug against talon for Explorer.EXE versus explorer.exe. I suppose it would make sense for it to be always lowercase?

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timo95commented, Jul 19, 2021

I tried 0.2 and it doesn’t work. It doesn’t recognize Windows-Explorer and Windows Explorer as equal. When I change it to this, then it works with 0.2:

apps.windows_explorer = """
os: windows
and app.name: Windows-Explorer
os: windows
and app.exe: explorer.exe
"""
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