Launcher

The Launcher is Yeero Desktop's global command bar: press Alt+Space and a single input box handles calculations, app launching, file search, screenshots, screen recording, clipboard history, and even direct AI questions — without leaving your current work.

Overview

The Launcher is built around one idea: "one input box, everything solved". Anything you type is parsed by 16 processors in parallel — expressions go to the calculator, URLs to the browser, app names to app search, natural language to AI. All results are merged, ranked by relevance, and executed with a single Enter.

• Global hotkey — Alt+Space by default, works from any application; press again to hide
• Bilingual triggers — every processor accepts both Chinese and English keywords; "截图" and "screenshot" do the same thing
• Pinyin & typo tolerance — full pinyin, pinyin initials, homophones and misspelling correction are all supported
• Two presentation modes — most results execute immediately on selection (e.g. launching an app); some capabilities (system monitor, settings, HTML apps) open a panel inside the Launcher window and keep it open
• Idle quick panel — with an empty query, the Launcher shows frequently used actions (lock, sleep, mute…) one click away

Quick Start

1. Press Alt+Space to summon the Launcher
2. Just type: try 12*8, screenshot, chrome, or any question
3. Navigate with ↑ ↓, or press Enter to run the top result

After you stop typing, the text is dispatched to every enabled processor, and results are listed from best to worst match. Each result shows its source processor and a hint; hover to see available shortcuts.

Matching

The matching engine is deeply optimized for mixed Chinese/English input:

• Fuzzy matching — no need to remember full names; typing a few scattered letters still hits (e.g. ysbjsq finds 记事本)
• Pinyin support — match Chinese names with full pinyin or initials
• Homophones — homophone variants still match
• Typo correction — a few wrong or missing letters don't get in the way; you still get results
• Multi-field scoring — app search weighs display name, aliases, localized names, descriptions and more, so the most likely intent ranks first

The 16 Processors at a Glance

The table summarizes all built-in processors. The trigger column shows typical examples — more synonyms are accepted.

Processor Reference

Calculator

Type an expression made of digits and operators and the result appears live in the candidate list — no need to press Enter to get the answer. Supported: + - * / ^ (power), % (modulo), parentheses, negatives and decimals.

• Live results — the answer is shown as the first candidate while you type
• Enter to copy — press Enter to copy the result to the clipboard, ready to paste into documents, spreadsheets or chats
• Clean output — 0.1+0.2 yields a clean 0.3, with no floating-point tail
• Idle quick entry — the idle panel also offers a calculator shortcut when nothing is typed

Examples: 12*(3+5) → 96; 2^10 → 1024; 100%7 → 2; -8/4 → -2.

URL Opener

Type a full link (https://…) or just a bare domain like github.com or yeero.ai — Enter opens it in your default browser.

• Auto protocol — bare domains are automatically completed with an https:// prefix
• Ports & paths — addresses with ports or intranet hosts like localhost:3000/admin or 192.168.1.1 work too

Screenshot

Type "screenshot" (or 截图/截屏; the first few letters are enough to suggest it) and press Enter. The Launcher hides itself and enters full-screen region selection — the whole flow takes three steps:

1. Select the area — drag to select any region, or simply click a window to let the system detect its bounds automatically
2. Confirm — a standalone image editor window opens automatically
3. Annotate & export — highlight, draw and add text right away, then save to your file library or copy to the clipboard

The idle panel also offers a screenshot shortcut when nothing is typed. For the full capture workflow (smart window detection, long-screenshot stitching) and annotation tools, see Screenshot & Recording.

Screen Record

Type "screen record", "screenrecord", 录屏 or 屏幕录制 (spaces are optional) and press Enter:

1. Choose the recording area — drag a region (minimum 100×100), or double-click a window for automatic detection
2. Full control while recording — a floating control bar appears on screen with a status indicator and live duration, supporting pause, resume and stop
3. Ready when you finish — after recording, send the video straight to the video editor, or view the file in your file manager

• No interruptions — while a recording is in progress, the Launcher stops showing recording candidates; all controls live on the floating bar
• Adjustable quality — frame rate and quality are configurable in Settings → Launcher
• Idle quick entry — the idle panel offers a recording shortcut, no typing needed

Recording also supports microphone audio and camera picture-in-picture — see Screenshot & Recording for details.

System Commands

Common system operations as searchable commands — one keyword gets you there, no more digging through system menus. Both Chinese and English triggers work, English hyphens are optional (volumeup and volume-up both work), and typing the first few letters suggests matches live:

Every command accepts further synonyms (e.g. "音量增", "音量降", "下载", "文档" in Chinese) — type it whichever way feels natural.

• Protection for risky actions — shutdown, restart and emptying the recycle bin always ask for confirmation first, so a slip of the hand is safe
• Recent files at hand — type "recent files" (or recent) to list the 20 most recently opened files; Enter opens them with their associated application
• Always in the idle panel — with an empty query, the idle panel always offers seven high-frequency commands: lock, sleep, show desktop, turn off display, mute, system settings and task manager — one click away

System Monitor

Type sm, monitor, 系统监控, 监控 or 系统状态 and a live system monitor panel expands inside the Launcher window, continuously refreshed — no need to open the task manager.

• Complete coverage — CPU usage and core info, memory and swap usage, capacity and usage of every disk, network upload/download speeds, sensor temperatures, system load, process count, OS version and uptime, all on one screen
• Sub-keyword jump — type "CPU", "memory" or "disk" (also disk, 硬盘, 存储) and the panel opens scrolled to the matching section
• Panel stays in the window — the panel renders inside the Launcher window; press Esc to close it and get back to work
• Idle quick entries — the idle panel offers shortcuts for System Monitor, CPU, Memory and Disks

Yeero Navigation

Navigate and act inside Yeero with natural language — all entries accept Chinese and English, and you may prepend verbs like "open", "go to" or 打开/前往/跳转 ("open settings" works exactly like "settings"). Matches appear in three ways: standalone pages open in a new window, while settings and account panels expand right inside the Launcher window without interrupting your work.

• Open pages (new window) — "chats", "new chat", "knowledge", "folders", "files" (file library), "models"; saying "message folders" / "app folders" opens the folders page directly on the matching category
• Settings, down to the category — "settings" opens the full settings panel; "system settings", "general settings", "prompt settings", "memory settings", "launcher settings" and "file index settings" jump straight to their category, rendered inside the Launcher window
• Account, down to the tab — "account" / "profile" opens the account panel; "credits", "invitation" and "feedback" jump straight to their tab
• Lifecycle actions — "main window" / "home" focuses the main window, "quit" exits the app, "restart" relaunches it
• Open editors — "image editor", "photo editor", "video editor" and "剪辑" (edit) open their standalone windows directly
• Help docs — "docs" / "help" opens this documentation site in your browser, in your current language
• Media files direct — type or paste an image/video file path: images open in the image editor, videos in the video editor. Quoted paths and file:// links are supported, and "open/edit" verbs before or after the path are recognized too (e.g. open C:\photos\avatar.png); even a pasted image goes straight into the image editor

App Search

Anything you type also searches your installed applications — much faster than digging through the Start menu or Launchpad. Candidates show real app icons; Enter launches the app.

• Type it any way — app names, full pinyin (e.g. weixin), pinyin initials, even keywords from an app's description all match
• Chinese & English interchangeable — type "微信" to find WeChat, or type "wechat" to find 微信
• Homophones & typo correction — homophone variants and small misspellings still produce results
• Always up to date — after installing or uninstalling apps, results update automatically with nothing to do

Bookmarks

Type the prefix bm, bookmark or 书签 followed by keywords to search bookmarks across Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari at once; Enter opens one in your default browser.

• Smart ranking — exact title matches come first, followed by title-prefix, title-contains and URL-contains matches, so what you want is always near the top
• Complete info — every bookmark shows its title, folder and URL at a glance
• Browse without keywords — with just the prefix, the first 50 bookmarks are listed for direct browsing
• Idle quick entry — the idle panel offers a bookmarks shortcut, no typing needed

Clipboard History

Type the prefix clip, clipboard or 剪贴板 to search everything you have ever copied — text, images and files are all captured automatically. Select a history entry and press Enter to restore it to the clipboard, ready to paste; never lose freshly copied content to an accidental overwrite again.

• Keyword search — type any keywords after the prefix to fuzzy-search the content
• Filter syntax — the filters below combine freely with keywords, in any order:

For example, clip @image @week design means "images containing 'design' copied this week".

• Rich entry info — every entry shows its type, copy time, sync status and pinned/favorite marks; image entries render thumbnail previews directly
• Cross-device sync, end-to-end encrypted — with cloud sync enabled, your clipboard history is shared automatically across devices signed in to the same account; synced content is end-to-end encrypted with keys stored only on your own devices, unreadable to anyone else. Encrypted entries synced from other devices show a hint when they cannot be decrypted here yet, and become viewable once you configure the same key in Settings → System
• Idle quick entry — the idle panel offers a clipboard history shortcut to browse your recent copies without typing

History limit, recording toggle and cross-device cloud sync live in Settings → Launcher; the end-to-end encryption key is configured in Settings → System.

Kill Process

When an app freezes or stops responding, type the prefix kill (or 结束/终止/杀掉) followed by the process name to end it quickly — no need to dig through the task manager.

• Search in Chinese or pinyin — "微信" matches the Weixin process; xunlei matches 迅雷; small spelling deviations still hit
• Auto-grouped by name — one app often spawns many background processes; results are merged into a single group showing the instance count and total memory, and Enter ends the whole group at once
• Readable names — friendly localized names and icons are shown where available ("迅雷" instead of Thunder.exe), so you never face raw process file names
• Clear failures — insufficient permissions or already-exited processes are reported explicitly, never silently

HTML App

Your AI Apps (BROWSER type) run right inside the Launcher: type an app name (pinyin and typo correction supported) and selecting the match opens it in a panel within the Launcher window — no need to switch to the main window; use it and move on.

• Always fresh — every time you summon the Launcher, the app list refreshes automatically, so newly created apps are available immediately
• Full experience in the panel — the app runs completely inside the panel while the Launcher stays open for continuous use
• Graceful fallback — when nothing matches, a "Create in Apps" entry takes you to the app creation flow with your input prefilled

File Search

Any query of 2+ characters participates in file search. Results come from Yeero's own file index — much faster than system search, and the files you open most often rank higher over time. Scan scope and ignore rules are configured in Settings → File Index:

• First-time wizard — your first search walks you through index setup; pick the scan scope and you're ready
• Search while indexing — while the index is being built, a scanning progress indicator is shown and already-indexed files stay searchable
• Complete result info — every result shows the file name (with keyword highlighting), location, size and modified time; Enter opens it with its associated program
• Deep content search — add the deep: prefix (e.g. deep:quarterly report) to search file contents via the OS native index (Spotlight / Windows Search / Tracker); off by default and enabled in settings, with a guidance hint when disabled
• Helpful empty states — empty results show how many files are currently indexed and offer an entry to adjust the scan scope, so you can tell whether the index simply doesn't cover your files
• Quick actions — results support Alt+Enter (reveal in file manager) and Ctrl/Cmd+Enter (copy full path)

Window Switcher

Any text matches against titles, app names and process names of open windows; Enter restores the window and brings it to the front — instead of opening a duplicate, any window is one jump away no matter how many are open.

• Every window counts — including minimized and tray-hidden ones, with their current state labeled on each entry
• Just as smart matching — pinyin, homophones and typo correction all work; Chinese window titles can be found via pinyin too
• Always a fresh list — windows are re-scanned on every Launcher invocation; if the target window was just closed, its entry disappears automatically so you never click a dead window
• Permission guidance — macOS asks for automation permission on first use, with a one-click jump to System Settings; unsupported Linux environments (e.g. Wayland) explain the reason and remedy clearly

Routing Engine

The routing engine makes "run an app with one sentence" possible: just describe what you want in plain words (e.g. "translate this text into English", "sum the sales in this spreadsheet") — the AI understands your intent and finds the AI app that gets it done.

• Match and run — when an app matches, it appears directly as a candidate; Enter runs it, with the execution process and results shown live in the Launcher panel
• Iterate in the panel — after a run, type new input in the panel and press Enter to re-run the same app — no starting over
• Always a way forward — when no existing app fits, two entries are offered: "Quick create & run" has the AI generate a new app on the spot and run it immediately; "Create in Apps" opens the app creation page with your input prefilled — ideal when you want to clarify requirements first

To learn more about the app system, see AI Apps.

AI Chat

Any non-empty input produces an "Ask AI" candidate — selecting it starts a conversation with your default model right in a Launcher panel, with word-by-word streaming output that you can stop at any time.

• Specific input ranks higher — the more complete and specific your question, the higher the candidate ranks, so you can often just press Enter to ask
• Follow up in the panel — after the answer completes, type a new question in the panel and press Enter to continue with full context
• Built for quick answers — look up a word, ask a concept, grab a code snippet without opening the main window; for multi-model comparison, branching or full conversation management, use Chat in the main window

Keyboard Shortcuts

Related Settings

Available under Settings → Launcher (this category only appears on desktop):

• Summon hotkey — shows the current global hotkey (default Alt+Space)
• Screen record FPS — 5–30, default 25; higher means smoother but larger files
• Screen record quality — H.264 CRF value 0–51, default 23; lower means better quality
• Clipboard history limit — 10–10,000 entries
• Clipboard history — when off, clipboard content is no longer captured
• Clipboard cross-device sync — sync clipboard history across devices via the cloud, with "Sync Now" and "Clear Cloud Data" actions
• Processor toggles — enable or disable any of the 16 processors individually, searchable by name and keywords; a disabled processor stops producing results

Related Reading

• Screenshot & Recording — regions, annotation, long screenshots and recording controls
• Image Editor — annotation, layers and metadata tools after capture
• Video Editor — editing, transitions and export after recording
• AI Apps — the app system behind HTML App and the Routing Engine