Cross-platform application to open any website or media in a floating window
Cross-platform application to open website or media in a floating window
Pennywise opens any website or media in a small floating window that remains on top of all other applications. Pennywise windows stays up all the time. No need to keep struggling with alt + tab, use Pennywise for easy multitasking.
Features
Installation
Download and install the relevant distribution from the releases page.
If you are on MacOS, you can use Homebrew to install it
brew install --cask pennywise
Enable Flash Support
To enable flash support, copy or link Chrome's Pepperflash plugin into your $HOME/.pennywise-flash. You can find the plugin at the installation path of the Chrome. For example, on MacOS, you can do the below to enable Flash support
ln -s ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/PepperFlash/[version]/PepperFlashPlayer.plugin" ~/.pennywise-flash
Usecases
Here is the list of some of the possible use cases off the top of my head
Development
Clone the repository, install the dependencies and start the app
yarn install yarn startShortcuts
Here is the list of available shortcuts that you may use
Shortcut Description
Cmd/Ctrl + L Show Navbar and focus URL input
Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + D Enable detached mode
Cmd/Ctrl + M Refresh Page
Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + L Toggle Navbar on WebPages
Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Up Increase Opacity
Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Down Decrease Opacity
Cmd/Ctrl + Alt + I Show Developer Tools
Cmd/Ctrl + [0-9] Switch Window Opacity
Note – Changing the opacity is only supported in Windows and MacOS
Detached Mode
Screenshots
Homescreen for the application
Anything running in pennywise stays on top of everything
You can change the opacity too
Auto-embed Videos
For some video streaming websites such as Youtube, Vimeo, Twitch, Daily Motion etc, Pennywise shows you the video only web page by default (using the auto-generated embed links), showing you the video in a distract free manner. You can disable that by toggling the Edit > Embed Videos
.
Note – In case of youtube, it might not work sometime when the user has put restrictions on the video – in that case, you will have to disable "Auto Embed" option from the Edit menu to make them work.
Why is it named Pennywise?
Because the application helps in floating and Pennywise loved to do that
Planned Roadmap
Contributions
Feel free to implement anything from the roadmap, submit pull requests, create issues, discuss ideas or spread the word.
License
MIT © Kamran Ahmed
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