Release / 2025-10-25

Elephant v2.7.1

Find and focus your open windows from the launcher.

Before you upgrade to v2.7.1

Files are indexed in SQLite and no longer fuzzy-matched, to cut memory use.

Behavior changedFind files, preview them, and open them or copy their path or content.Affects: Users of the files provider

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What changed in v2.7.1

New providers: windows, snippets (needs wtype) and niri sessions. Menus can build entries in Lua; %CLIPBOARD% can stand in for the query in menus and websearch. Files moved to a SQLite index without fuzzy matching. Groups v2.2.4 to v2.7.1.

Also: Clipboard auto_cleanup and ignore_symbols; todo categories; files ignored_dirs.

v2.7.1; snippets need wtype, niri sessions need niri.

New things you can do

Find an open window by title or app and focus it.

Added

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Type saved text snippets found by keyword.

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Open a predefined set of apps on niri workspaces in one step.

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Fixed and improved

Menu entries can be generated by a Lua script; %CLIPBOARD% inserts the clipboard into commands.

ImprovedDefine your own menus with entries and actions.

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auto_cleanup interval and ignore_symbols options.

ImprovedBrowse and reuse text and image clipboard history.

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Seeded by @iluxav with Claude Code (canido), from the release's public sources. Each change links to its evidence.