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Shortcuts for Favorites and Tags in Screensaver Mode

LaunchBox for Windows

Summary:

While watching the Big Box screensaver, it’s common to spot interesting games you’d like to classify quickly — for example, marking them as Favorites, adding a “Want to Play” tag, or excluding them with “Won’t Play.”

Currently, doing so requires exiting the screensaver and opening the game’s edit screen, which interrupts the flow.

Proposed Enhancement:

Add optional hotkeys that can be used directly while the screensaver is running, allowing quick tagging or classification without leaving the view.

Suggested Shortcuts:

  • ❤️ Mark / Unmark as Favorite

  • 🎮 Add “Want to Play” tag

  • 🚫 Add “Won’t Play” tag

  • ⏭️ Skip to Next Game (bonus quality-of-life shortcut)

Benefits:

  • Keeps the immersive screensaver experience uninterrupted.

  • Makes it easier to curate collections or manage large libraries.

  • Encourages quick discovery and organization of games directly from passive browsing.

Posted by Luca1010 ·
Status: Open To Community2 comments

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  • AstroBob changed status to Open To Community
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    Oct 13, 2025

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    Hi there!

    Thanks so much for submitting this request and for taking the time to explain your use case — that context is always super helpful.

    I’ve gone ahead and fleshed out the main idea using the info you provided, and I’m opening it up to the community for further discussion and feedback. Please let me know if this fleshed-out version doesn’t match your original intended request.

    Feel free to let me know if you have any extra thoughts, examples, or edge cases you think might be relevant!

    Cheers,
    The LaunchBox team

  • Luca1010

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    Oct 13, 2025

    Shortcut for favorites/tags in screensaver

    Hi,

    Sometimes when Bigbox screensaver is running I see an interesting game and I would like to classify it as favorite, or "I want to play" or "I won't play".

    Of course I could enter the explore screen and edit the game accordingly. But this breaks the "flow" of the screensaver.

    It would be awesome to have some shortcut usable in screen saver mode that changes those properties of the game without interrupting the screen saver.

    As a bonus, also a "next game" shortcut in screensaver would be nice.