PowerToys equivalent tools

Microsoft offers a collection of advanced tools called PowerToys for their Windows operating system. Equivalent or similar tools are also available on Linux.

Advanced Paste

Some of these functions are built into the default clipboard manager on KDE Plasma, accessed with Super+V

Always on Top

This functionality is built into KDE Plasma. Simply right click the window’s title bar (if the window doesn’t have a title bar, you may press Alt+F3 to invoke the same menu) and select More Actions > Keep Above Others. You can also set a shortcut to do this in the shortcut settings.

Awake

Obviously you may simply disable power management (which is much easier on Plasma than it is on Windows), but if you want all the functionality, use (this is a future Moon endeavour)

Color Picker

Add the color picker widget to your dock or desktop, or use KColorChooser if you rather an application.

Command Not Found

This feature is available through PackageKit, and should be automatically set up on bash and zsh. You may need to configure it on other shells.

Crop and Lock

This doesn’t appear to exist, but would probably be possible to implement as a Desktop Effect

Environment Variables

Unlike Windows, there is no central location to have environment variables. You can run printenv to see all applicable environment variables, and see this ArchWiki article on how to define them.

FancyZones

This feature is built into Plasma as the “Window Tiling” Desktop Effect. It is enabled by default, and you can use it by pressing Super+T

File Explorer add-ons

These features are built into KDE Plasma’s file manager, Dolphin.

File Locksmith

File locking shouldn’t really happen apart from specific circumstances on Linux, but you may always just delete the lock (although this can lead to issues, especially if you’re messing with your package manager for example).

Hosts File Editor

Simply edit /etc/hosts. You may use xdg-open on Plasma, assuming your default editor is Kate or KWrite, as they support Polkit.

Image Resizer

Use ReImage, a Dolphin service. Moon: Remember to try https://store.kde.org/p/2145001/ and https://github.com/irfanhakim-as/kde-service-menu-reimage

Keyboard Manager

The ability to use custom shortcuts is built into Plasma. See System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts

Mouse Utilities

Some features of this plugin are available through Desktop Effects on Plasma, them being: Track Mouse, Mouse Click Animation. Mouse Warp is currently not here, but it should be possible to write an effect for this. Maybe one day I’ll make one.

Mouse Without Borders

There are a few tools that do this. Remind me to try them. https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap https://github.com/feschber/lan-mouse Read https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow?tab=readme-ov-file#collaborative-projects

New+

Templates are natively supported in Dolphin, and use .desktop files. Read this - Moon, write a guide eventually

Peek

I’ll find something eventually

PowerRename

You may use the included KRename to do something very similar.

PowerToys Run

You may use KRunner, which is installed by default, and accessible with Alt+Space by default. By default, it appears at the top of the screen, but you can make it show in the center using its settings.

Quick Accent

See (about compose keys link - moon put this here eventually)

Registry Preview

Linux doesn’t use a registry, so there is no registry preview tool.

Screen Ruler

Use KRuler.

Shortcut Guide

Wayland’s design probably makes this impossible unless KDE wants to add it to their compositor. Sorry.

Text Extractor

Note to moon: try the following and then update recommendations here https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.tenderowl.frog https://github.com/zendalona/lios https://danpla.github.io/dpscreenocr/en/ https://github.com/dynobo/normcap https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher

Video Conference Mute

Note to moon: explore shortcuts menu to see if this is possible