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PowerToys Run Plugin Manager

This is a cli tool to manage PowerToys Run plugins. It can be used to install, uninstall, update, list, and import plugins.

Installation

Download binary from releases page.

or build from source:

cargo install --git https://github.com/8LWXpg/ptr.git

Features

• Easy to use command line interface with informative help messages.
• Automatically download and install plugins from GitHub.
• Restart PowerToys after installing or removing plugins.
• Update all plugins with a single command.
• Restore plugins from a configuration file.

Limitations

If you have any suggestions for these limitations, feel free to open an issue.

• This tool only supports plugins hosted on GitHub.
• The plugin release must be a zip file with either x64 or arm64 in the file name, or the tool will prompt you to specify the asset.
• The zip structure must be like this:

  something-x64.zip
  └── anyPluginName
      |   plugin.dll
      └── plugin files...
  

For more general pattern matching and downloading, check another tool I wrote: gpm.

Usage

This tool will create a file at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PowerToys\PowerToys Run\Plugins\version.toml to store installed plugins.

PowerToys Run Plugin Manager

Usage: ptr.exe <COMMAND>

Commands:
  add         Add a plugin [aliases: a]
  update      Update plugins [aliases: u]
  remove      Remove plugins [aliases: r]
  list        List all installed plugins [aliases: l]
  pin         Pin plugins so it's not updated with `update --all` [aliases: p]
  import      Import plugins from configuration file [aliases: i]
  restart     Restart PowerToys
  completion  Generate shell completion (PowerShell)
  help        Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help     Print help
  -V, --version  Print version

Add

Add a plugin

Usage: ptr.exe add <NAME> <REPO>

Arguments:
  <NAME>  The name of the plugin, can be anything
  <REPO>  The GitHub repository identifier or url of the plugin

Options:
  -v, --version <VERSION>  The target version of the plugin
  -h, --help               Print help

e.g.

ptr a GitHubRepo 8LWXpg/PowerToysRun-GitHubRepo

Update

Update plugins

Usage: ptr.exe update [OPTIONS] [NAME]...

Arguments:
  [NAME]...  The name of the plugins to update

Options:
  -a, --all                Update all plugins
  -v, --version <VERSION>  Version to update to
  -h, --help               Print help

e.g.

ptr u -a

ptr u Plugin1 Plugin2 -v v1.1.0 -v 1.2.0

Remove

Remove plugins

Usage: ptr.exe remove [NAME]...

Arguments:
  [NAME]...  The name of the plugins to remove

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help

e.g.

ptr r GitHubRepo ProcessKiller

List

Usage: ptr.exe list

Pin

Pin plugins so it's not updated with `update --all`

Usage: ptr.exe pin <COMMAND>

Commands:
  add     Add pins [aliases: a]
  remove  Remove pins [aliases: r]
  list    List pins [aliases: l]
  reset   Clear all pins
  help    Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help

Import

This reads the configuration file at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PowerToys\PowerToys Run\Plugins\version.toml.

Import plugins from configuration file

Usage: ptr.exe import [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -d, --dry-run  Update the configuration file without downloading the plugin
  -h, --help     Print help

Restart

Usage: ptr.exe restart

Completion

Usage: ptr.exe completion

Add this line in your PowerShell $PROFILE:

(ptr completion) -join "`n" | iex

Why Rust?

The clap crate in Rust is very powerful and easy to use for building command line applications, so I chose Rust to build this tool.