How to get PowerToys Peek to work with Directory Opus?

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PowerToys Peek works in File Explorer but I can't get it to work in Directory Opus. The issue at first appeared to be that the default Peek shortcut of Ctrl+Space conflicts with deselecting of Dopus' lister items (and I'm not sure how to disable that), but even after changing Peek's shortcut to Shift+Space, Peek still won't trigger when in DOpus.

Is there a solution?

Thanks.

Directory Opus 12.32 x64
PowerToys 0.71
Windows 11 22H2 22621.1928
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I expect it only works in File Explorer, unless it knows about Opus and how to request the selected file from it. (There is an API, but they'd have to code for it.)

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I was previously using QuickLook, and it does indeed list Directory Opus as one of its supported file managers.

I'm not sure how likely PowerToys would be to want to support third-party file managers, but I can always ask since that sounds like it's the only option.

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was just going to ask it powertoys interfaces with dopus. i expected that it would not, cause ya know, windows. ha. ill check out quicklook