Launchify shows your apps as live tiles on the XENEON EDGE: tap one to launch it, tap again to bring its window forward. You'll install a small Windows helper, import the widget in iCUE and pin your first app, with no account and nothing to configure.
Before you start
Install
Download the two files
Download both files from the latest release:
Launchify Helper Setup.exe: the background helper and its installer.launchify.icuewidget: the widget you import into iCUE.
Run the installer
Double-click Launchify Helper Setup.exe. It installs the helper to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Launchify, sets it to start with Windows, adds an entry under Settings → Apps so you can remove it later, and starts it. Click OK on the "You're all set!" dialog.
Import the widget in iCUE
- Open iCUE and select your XENEON EDGE from the device list.
- Go to the Widgets (dashboard) section for the screen.
- Choose Import widget and pick
launchify.icuewidget. - Drag Launchify onto a screen area and size it however you like.
Pin your first app
- Tap + in the header (or Add your first app).
- Choose where to look. Running now lists everything with a window right now, Installed lists your Start Menu and Desktop shortcuts, and Browse… opens a file picker for anything else.
- Tap an app to pin it. The row marks itself ✓ Added and the picker stays open, so keep going. To take one back off, tap the ✕ on its row twice.
- Tap ‹ when you're done. Your apps are waiting on the grid.
Reading a tile
The dot and the line under each app's name tell you what the app is doing right now.
| State | What you see | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Closed | Dim icon | Not running. A tap launches it. |
| Running | Filled dot | A tap brings it forward. |
| Minimized | Hollow dot | A tap restores it. |
| In tray | Faint hollow dot and In tray | Running with no window at all. |
| In front | Accent ring | The window you're in. By default, a tap minimizes it. |
| Close? | Red tile | Waiting for a second tap to confirm. |
Make it yours
Everything below is in the widget's gear, and in iCUE's own widget settings panel.
- Assign every gesture. In Preferences → Touch, a tap gets three bindings (closed, running, in front), and double tap and long press get one each. Double tap is off by default, because binding it adds a short wait to every tap.
- Arrange without the menu. Tap the pencil to put
‹ › ✕on every app, so reordering and removing take one tap each. - Grid or list, any size. App size runs from 60% to 180%, and names and state lines can be turned off.
- Colour the badges. The dot, the state line, the ×2 chip and the monitor number each have their own colour and their own switch.
Troubleshooting
The widget says "Waiting for Launchify Helper…"
The helper isn't running.
- Tap Launch Launchify Helper on that screen. It starts the installed copy.
- If nothing happens, run
Launchify Helper Setup.exeonce. The button relies on thelaunchify://handler the installer registers. - Check that it's running: Task Manager → Details →
LaunchifyHelper.exe. - The log file is at
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Launchify\helper.log.
Windows blocked the installer
Windows protected your PC appears for any installer that isn't code-signed. Click More info → Run anyway. If your browser refused the download instead, choose Keep or Keep anyway in its downloads list.
An app shows as closed while it's clearly running
Launchify matches a pinned app to a running one by its exe path, falling back to the exe name.
- Some launchers start a different copy of the exe than the shortcut points at (per-version folders, updaters). Re-pin the app from Running now while it's open, so you pin the exe that's actually in use.
- Store apps that have never been started don't appear under Installed. Open the app once and pin it from Running now.
A window won't come to the front
Windows only lets the foreground app hand over focus. Launchify works around that, but two cases still win:
- A full-screen exclusive game holds focus. Press Alt + Tab to leave the game first.
- An app that's busy or not responding can't be brought forward until it answers. Use Force close in the app menu.
Moving an app to another monitor does nothing, or it snaps back
- The app needs a window. A tray app has none to move.
- Some apps manage their own placement and restore their saved position immediately. There's no way around that from outside the app.
- Opens on waits about 12 seconds for the app's first window. An app that takes longer to draw one won't be placed.
An icon is missing or wrong
Icons are read from the exe and cached in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Launchify\icons. A few apps ship a stub exe with a generic icon. Delete that folder and the helper reads every icon again the next time the widget asks.
Uninstall
Go to Settings → Apps → Launchify Helper, or run "Launchify Helper Setup.exe" /uninstall. That removes the helper, its start-with-Windows entry, the launchify:// handler and the icon cache. Remove the widget from iCUE separately.
Your pinned apps live in the widget's own storage, so uninstalling the helper doesn't lose them.
Privacy
Launchify makes no network requests. The helper listens on 127.0.0.1:57131 for the widget on the same PC, and that's all its networking: no account, no telemetry, no cloud. Your pinned apps stay in the widget, and the icon cache and log stay in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Launchify.
Close app sends the same request as clicking an app's X, so an app with unsaved work still gets to ask you about it. Force close works like Task Manager's End task, which is why the widget asks twice first.