Spriglet #14:Google Desktop and Launchy Living Harmoniously

July 24, 2008 in spriglets, technology with 3 Comments

If you are a Google Desktop and Launchy user like me, you’ll know that the Win+Space hotkey doesn’t work in Launchy if Google Desktop is installed — even if the GD hotkeys are “disabled”.

Well, here’s the answer.  You’ll have to hack the registry, but it works good.  Here’s the gist.

  1. Exit Google Desktop
  2. Add this a “hot_key_flags” DWORD in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Desktop\Preferences
  3. Set the value to “0″ to disable all hotkeys.
  4. I rebooted afterward, but restarting GD may enable it.

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3 Responses to “Spriglet #14:Google Desktop and Launchy Living Harmoniously”

  1. DeanCutlet January 27, 2009 at 3:55 pm #

    Good fix. I’ve been using Launchy for a while with the WIN+Space hotkey and installed DesktopSearch recently. I decided to use the registry fix instead of messing with Launchy’s ini file since it is Google causing the problems.

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  2. Coldhak August 19, 2009 at 7:46 am #

    nice tip. You could also switch the keybind for launchy. I use alt+space(same as gnome-do’s default if I remember right).

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