Windows

The default hotkey is Alt+Space

Windows reserves a large part of the keyboard for the shell. Win-key combinations are almost entirely off limits, and some Alt combinations are too. The default Alt+Space avoids the worst of these.

A hotkey you choose yourself can silently fail to register — there is no in-app conflict detection yet. If rebinding a hotkey appears to do nothing, try a combination starting with Ctrl or Alt instead of Win.

Showing the window takes focus

Windows’ foreground-lock heuristic normally ignores a request to raise a window that did not come from a key press, which would leave the palette visible but unfocused when opened from the tray icon or by launching OpenRay a second time. OpenRay performs the standard AttachThreadInput handshake before raising itself so those paths take focus too.

The tray icon follows the taskbar

The tray glyph is monochrome and picks black or white from the taskbar’s own theme rather than the apps theme, because Windows tracks the two separately and light apps over a dark taskbar is a common default.

No permission prompt

Unlike macOS, Windows needs no accessibility grant for paste injection or for the snippet keyboard hook.

What is verified

Everything on Windows is compile-checked in CI against the real target, and nothing on it has been exercised on real hardware yet: shortcut resolution, focus stealing, paste injection, snippet auto-expansion, and the native file dialogs are all listed as known gaps in Platform verification.