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Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by Waterluvian » Sun, May 02, 2021, 11:54 AM UTC

tomc1985 wrote: post #14

numpad0 wrote: post #9

> Many existing terminals support a feature whereby a user can press a keybinding anywhere in the OS, and summon their terminal application. [...] This global summon action is often referred to as "quake mode", a reference to the video game Quake, who's console slid in from the top. This is not to play Quake in WT, this allows WT to behave like the console window in Quake descendants that displays when [ ~] is presse…

Hey now, I've used it to blindly type in the command to switch screen resolution when I accidentally set it to something my computer didn't support back in the day

This reminds me of using a floppy disk and a bunch of blind keyboard commands to recover my corrupted BIOS in 2002. Felt like a wizard when it worked.

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by mszcz » Sun, May 02, 2021, 12:27 PM UTC

tbronchain wrote: post #41

I've been using Auto Hotkey[1] for a while and it's truly amazing to bring the missing hotkeys feature to Windows. This, plus Altdrag[2], Quicklook[3] and Winxcorners[4] are my must have. 1: https://www.autohotkey.com/ 2: https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/ 3: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/quicklook/9nv4bs3l1h4s 4: https://github.com/vhanla/winxcorners

AltDrag has been one of the first pieces of software I install on a Windows machine for years now. Such a time saver.

As we're a little OT here, I might as well recommend you check out GridMove which moves windows to predefined positions on any of the screens with a press of a hotkey.

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by oblio » Sun, May 02, 2021, 12:42 PM UTC

numpad0 wrote: post #9

> Many existing terminals support a feature whereby a user can press a keybinding anywhere in the OS, and summon their terminal application. [...] This global summon action is often referred to as "quake mode", a reference to the video game Quake, who's console slid in from the top. This is not to play Quake in WT, this allows WT to behave like the console window in Quake descendants that displays when [ ~] is presse…

> This is not to play Quake in WT, this allows WT to behave like the console window in Quake descendants that displays when [ ~] is pressed

That's what they're saying.

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by oblio » Sun, May 02, 2021, 12:49 PM UTC

colordrops wrote: post #37

pdpi wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reverse/forward searches are features of the shell, not the terminal. As others have noted, PowerShell supports those.

tmux supports this.

Tmux is not a terminal, though.

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by stinos » Sun, May 02, 2021, 12:52 PM UTC

aste-risk wrote: post #3

Please come up with reverse searches and forward searches in terminal and I swear I will change my primary OS to Windows.

Fuzzy history search like fzf does is in my experience quicker. And also works in Powershell.

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by oblio » Sun, May 02, 2021, 12:58 PM UTC

hansel_der wrote: post #38

pdpi wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reverse/forward searches are features of the shell, not the terminal. As others have noted, PowerShell supports those.

> searches are features of the shell, not the terminal no, tmux/screen implement search in the terminal output buffer and work well.

Do they, though? They have their own buffer.

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by ossopite » Sun, May 02, 2021, 1:07 PM UTC

aste-risk wrote: post #3

Please come up with reverse searches and forward searches in terminal and I swear I will change my primary OS to Windows.

Clink [https://mridgers.github.io/clink/] adds this functionality and much more to good old fashioned command prompt (which I prefer to powershell because it's much faster and simpler)

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by Grimm1 » Sun, May 02, 2021, 1:13 PM UTC

I use Guake as my preferred terminal on Linux for this reason. I love how I can just pull it up over everything and put it away with one key press.

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by pbowyer » Sun, May 02, 2021, 1:18 PM UTC

tbronchain wrote: post #41

I've been using Auto Hotkey[1] for a while and it's truly amazing to bring the missing hotkeys feature to Windows. This, plus Altdrag[2], Quicklook[3] and Winxcorners[4] are my must have. 1: https://www.autohotkey.com/ 2: https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/ 3: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/quicklook/9nv4bs3l1h4s 4: https://github.com/vhanla/winxcorners

I played with Auto Hotkey (AHK) recently as I wanted to add a layer to my keyboard. Wow, what powerful software! But I really disliked the scripting language and wished they'd used a standard language.

I ended up installing TouchCursor [1] which did everything I need at present, but will persevere with AHK.

1: http://martin-stone.github.io/touchcursor/

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by Too » Sun, May 02, 2021, 1:18 PM UTC

Disregarding the geek and nostalgia factor. Why is this a feature of a specific application and not the WM?

In fact it's almost already there. Just put your terminal as first item in the task list, then press Win+1 to summon a terminal and then Win+1 again to hide it. All existing window location and focus rules stay the same. What's missing?