Making it yours

Bookmarks, settings, themes, key remapping, and launch arguments.

It works on the defaults.

This chapter is about the parts that don’t fit your hands.

Bookmarks can carry arguments.

Ctrl+D toggles the current folder as a favorite.

The bookmark bar is the strip under the title bar. Turn it on in Settings ▸ Navigation. It holds folders and files in groups, and you add to it by dragging onto an empty slot.

Ctrl+P also jumps to favorites and recent folders, sorted by frequency.

The bookmark bar with group chips — open a chip and you get that group's folders

Placeholders

A bookmark can carry launch arguments, and those arguments take placeholders.

%P is the current path. %S is the selection.

So “open this folder in that program” or “hand the selected files to this tool” becomes a single bookmark.

Settings is `Ctrl+,`.

Ctrl+P → “settings” works too.

Tabs run down the left, and the All tab lays every option out on one screen. When you don’t know where something lives, the search box at the top is faster.

The settings window — the tab list on the left and the search box above

General

Language — English / Korean. Changing it reloads the app.

Restore tabs on start — all / locked only (default) / from scratch
Start with a single panel
Remember window position and size — including maximized state (off by default)
Show hidden files — same as Ctrl+H
Show bookmark bar / show top menu bar (off by default) / show calendar in sidebar
Notes folder — empty means notes/ in the app settings folder
Show command line + target panel + use active panel for paths
Show full tab names / locked tabs as icons only

Behavior

Auto-refresh (on by default)
Confirm recycle-bin delete (on by default)
Click clears the previous selection — on is Explorer-style (default), off keeps the selection like Total Commander
Git awareness / cloud sync awareness / per-app file icons / overlay icons
Quick find mode — move cursor (default) / filter list
Open F3 in a separate window / autoplay media in preview / loop media

Integration

Folder search mode (Ctrl+P) — built-in (favorites and recent) / Everything
Terminal — PowerShell / cmd / Windows Terminal (+ WT profile)
Editor — the program F4 uses
rclone cloud remotes + the path to the rclone executable

Appearance

Selected file style — inverted (default) / bold / outline / outline glow
Cursor row style — outline (default) / filled / outline glow
Mouse pointer glow
Default thumbnail size — small / medium / large / extra large
List thumbnails (details and brief) — off (icons) / small / medium / large
Thumbnail disk cache — check usage and clear it
Pin the top and bottom bars when zooming — Ctrl+wheel then scales only the list in the middle

Canvas view

Card borders and their width, title backgrounds, corner rounding, group borders, snapping and its spacing (4–32px), layout spacing, and edge shape (curved, straight, orthogonal). (Chapter 3)

Preview

For each extension, you decide how Ctrl+Q and F3 open it — images, audio, video, PDF, text, code, markdown, CSV. What you set wins over the built-in rules, and the built-in defaults are listed read-only underneath.

AI

Pick a provider (currently OpenRouter), set a default model, and register an API key.

The model field autocompletes from the provider’s list, showing context length and price. Check key verifies it and shows your usage.

The key goes into the Windows Credential Manager, so it’s never sitting in plain text.

Accessibility

Reduce motion / high contrast — follow system / on / off

Weather

Show weather + city (empty means detect by IP) + temperature unit

Export and import

Not just settings. Favorites, sort orders, and tab sessions — all the pc-* data — export to and import from one JSON file.

Moving to a new PC or making a backup is that one file.

Themes can be imported.

Mode — light (paper) / dark / follow system
Accent color
Six built-in presets — minimal black · summer · autumn · winter · sea · redline (each with a light and a dark side)
Import and export CSS themes, with fine-grained color and shape variables
Colors by file type, striped rows
Background image — with fit options and a scrim slider

The theme tab — mode, accent, and the built-in presets

Background effects

Settings ▸ Background effects lays a quiet animation over the whole window — snow, leaves, or waves. The default is none.

It sits below modals, never gets in the way of clicking or selecting, and takes its colors from the theme. Speed, amount, size, opacity, and color are sliders, with ↺ to reset.

The background effects tab — pick an effect, then tune it with the sliders

UI scale

Ctrl+wheel, or Ctrl + / Ctrl − — scales text, icons, and spacing together from 50% to 300%
Ctrl 0 — back to 100%
The − 100% ＋ control on the bottom bar does the same, and the scale is saved.

If the list is too small on a high-resolution monitor, this is the fix.

Every shortcut can be changed.

F1 cheat sheet → edit shortcuts, or Ctrl+P → “remap shortcuts”.

Any command’s key can be changed, and one command can hold several bindings.
Conflict detection flags a combo bound to more than one thing.

The shortcuts tab — rebind any command, with overlaps flagged as conflicts

Three presets

Default — peechcookie’s own keys
TC compatible — Shift+F6 rename, F2 refresh, Ctrl+F1/F2 view modes
Explorer compatible — F5 refresh, Ctrl+C/X/V, Ctrl+Shift+N new folder, Ctrl+F search

⚠️ Structural keys for list navigation are reserved and can’t be remapped: Enter, Tab, Space, Esc, and the arrow keys.

You can open it with arguments.

Some Total Commander-compatible parameters are supported. Flag case doesn’t matter.

peechcookie.exe [path1] [path2] [options…]

Parameter	Effect
`path1 [path2]`	Left = path1, right = path2 (quote paths with spaces)
`/L=path`	Left panel path
`/R=path`	Right panel path
`/P=L` · `/P=R`	Active panel at start
`/T`	Open the path in a new tab
`/S=L file`	Open the file in the built-in viewer
`/M=0\|1\|2`	Theme — 0 light / 1 system / 2 dark
`/O` · `/N`	Activate running instance / new window

If the path is a file, it opens that file’s folder with the cursor on it. Relative paths resolve against the calling working directory.

peechcookie.exe D:\work C:\
peechcookie.exe /R=D:\dl /P=R
peechcookie.exe /T C:\logs
peechcookie.exe /S=L readme.txt

⚠️ Being single-instance, even /N won’t spawn a second window. Arguments always go to the existing one.

Postscript. You don’t need to change all of it.

Most of this stays on defaults.

The two people actually change are the editor path and the shortcut preset.