Configuring an extension
Preferences, launcher icons, aliases, background refresh, and making an extension feel at home.
Open Settings → Extensions, find the extension under installed extensions, and choose Configure. From the launcher, ⌘K → Configure Extension on any of its commands goes to the same place.
Preferences
Whatever settings the extension declares, shown as native controls: checkbox, dropdown, text field, password field, file picker, folder picker or app picker.
They are saved per extension in Tinycast's own folder, and removed when you uninstall it.
Launcher icon
Swap an extension's own artwork for an SF Symbol on a colored tile, with 18 colors to choose from, or pick Use Original to go back.
The choice applies to every command the extension has.
The symbol picker opens on about 85 suggestions, but search reaches the whole catalog of roughly
6,500 symbols. It understands Apple's extra search words, so "coffee" finds cup.and.saucer.
Symbols Apple reserves for its own products, like iCloud, iPhone and AirPlay, are never offered.
Icon choices are included in backups.
Command alias
Each command has an alias field beside its shortcut recorder. Type si there, and that command comes
first when you search si, just like an app alias.
The field dims when the command is hidden from launcher search.
Background refresh
A no-view command that declares an interval, like 1m or 12h, can run on that schedule in the
background. Whatever subtitle it sets shows beside its name in the launcher. Coffee's
Caffeinate Status, for example, updates itself every minute.
It is off for each command until you run that command once yourself, or turn it on in its settings. There you can also see when it last refreshed and any error.
In the launcher, a small dot on the row shows refresh is on, and a warning shows if the last run failed. ⌘K offers Enable Background Refresh or Disable Background Refresh, and Refresh Now.
To keep it cheap:
- The shortest interval is one minute. Failures wait longer each time, up to a day.
- A background run never interrupts a command you are using.
- A background run shows no toasts, dialogs or windows.
Uninstalling
Removes the extension and everything attached to it: storage, cache, preferences, its support folder, Keychain sign-ins, the icon choice, command shortcuts, favorites, hidden items, aliases and learned ranking.
⌘K → Uninstall Extension in the launcher does the same.