MightyPie started as a Window Switcher for Windows 11, inspired by Blender's pie menus. It now offers a few more useful functions, like launching programs, media control, minimizing/maximizing windows under the cursor and more.
This is my first "real" program and there are almost certainly bugs and rough edges here and there, so use at your own discretion. MightyPie is functional, but I don't really plan on developing it into a full, polished release. I welcome feedback and contributions, but I may not actively maintain or expand the project beyond its current state.
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Multiple Pie Menus: There are two Pie Menus with assignable hotkeys. Each has three layers of eight configurable buttons.
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Four Button Functionalities
- Show Any Window: shows any open window
- Show Program Window: shows only windows of certain program, if none are open it launches the program instead
- Launch Program: launches program
- Call Function: select from a bunch of function, i.e. Play, Pause, Maximize under cursor etc.
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Special Menu: Has even more shortcuts for Windows and for MightyPie itself. This is where the settings are.
MightyPie works with a cache (App Info Cache) that holds the info (name, path, icon path) for all the programs the user has opened once. This cache is the working basis for all program-related buttons, i.e. their UI and launch paths
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Run the application: The program is portable so just run MightyPie.exe.
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Configure Hotkeys: The settings open at the first start. Here you can configure your hotkeys. (Default are Alt+F1 for the Primary Pie Menu and Alt+F2 for the Secondary Pie Menu. The hotkeys are keyboard only and some restriction apply, i.e. Windows Key can't be used.
(Be aware that many key combinations are already in use by programs, though MightyPie will suppress them. I personally use AHK to map mouse buttons to keys like F13 and F14 and use those as hotkeys.)
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Trigger the Pie Menu: The Pie Menu opens on button-down. You can also hold the hotkey, hover over a button (or its section) and just release for triggering a button.
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Pie Menu: Use the mouse to select a button in the pie menu.
- Left-click is the normal function.
- Middle-click on Show Window Buttons will close that window.
- Right-click anywhere will close the Pie Menu.
- Left-click on the Center Button of a Pie Menu triggers the "forward" mouse button by default (because I am using that for opening the Pie Menu and this way I still have that functionality). You can also set it to "backward" or nothing.
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Special Menu: More Windows functions and settings.
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Middle-click the Center Button in any Pie Menu to open the Special Menu.
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All the buttons have tool tips.
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The Startup section is only visible when run with elevated privileges, which I recommend anyway, since MightyPie will otherwise not work when programs with elevated privileges are in the foreground (like Task Manager). "Start with Windows" creates (or removes) a task in the Task Scheduler, hence the shortcut there.
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the Invisible UI right now consists of two buttons on the left edge and at the bottom of the screen respectively. The one on the left opens an explorer window and the one at the bottom toggles Taskbar visibility (just like the toggle in the menu)
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in the App Data folder, you find json files which save the Button Config, the App Settings and the App Info Cache (you normally don't have to interact with those directly but if you have problems, try deleting these files to get reset the whole program).
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the other unlabeled buttons are:
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Windows Shortcuts:
- Open Task Manager
- Open Sound Settings
- Open Network Settings
- Open Projection Settings (Windows monitor switching)
- Open an explorer window
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Monitor Switching: The Monitor Switching area is turned off in the settings by default. It uses my specific shortcuts set in DisplayFusion to switch screens and is probably of use for anyone else. (You can change the shortcuts though.)
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MightyPie Shortcuts:
- Clear / Reset the App Info Cache
- Re-assign all Buttons: will re-assign Show Any Window Buttons starting on the lower Pie Menu levels first. (normally windows will stay on one button, once assigned)
- Open the Button Config: Here you can assign the functions of all buttons in all Pie Menus
- Open App Settings: General Settings of MightyPie (settings require a restart to take effect)
- Restart
- Quit
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I built MightyPie from main.py with PyInstaller with the following arguments:
(Jump to more info on PyInstaller)
--name MightyPie
--clean
--add-data "assets;assets"
--add-data "LICENSE.md;."
--add-data "licenses/*;licenses"
--add-data "src;src"
--icon "assets/MightyPie_Icon.ico"
-y "$FileName$"
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Sometimes a window is not being focused first try. Tried a lot of things to get this consistent but it's still not a 100%
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Starting MightyPie on a screen with DPI scaling works well, but switching to a screen with it causes blurriness. Thus, MightyPie restarts any time the screen setup changes. I also tried spanning the Pie Window (fullscreen window that spawns the Pie Menu) across all screens so an opened menu can be interacted with from other screens. This leads to offset glitches as well as scaling/blurriness issues when one of the screen uses DPI scaling, so it's not implemented anymore.
MightyPie is licensed under the GPL3.0 License, that can also be found here: licenses/GPL_3_0.txt.
MightyPie incorporates icons from the Tabler Icons library. These icons are licensed under the MIT License, and the license text can be found in the licenses/Tabler_MIT_License.txt file.
Website: https://tabler.io/
It is also based on PyQt6, which uses the GPL3.0 License, that can also be found here: licenses/GPL_3_0.txt
Website: https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro
MightyPie is built with PyInstaller. Website: https://pyinstaller.org/
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