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Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by jedimastert »

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

Auto Hotkey is surprisingly powerful

Here's Tom Scott talking about how he used AHK and Lua to make a keyboard for every emoji

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIFE7h3m40U

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by vonwoodson »

Too wrote: post #60

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?

Had no idea this existed. Haven’t seriously used windows (except to ssh into my Linux machines) in over a decade, though.

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by mariusmg »

geek_at wrote: post #17
xen2xen1 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you seen choclatey?

I love choco and use it heavily. The only thing I'm really missing on Windows coming from Linux is a update commandline utility like apt where I can see all updates and can install them one by one if I want to

choco outdated

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by uncleyo »

Too wrote: post #60

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?

Had been literally doing this first as a "poor man's" quake mode since moving away from ConEmu - pretty soon realised it was just enough for me. So I'd rather they find an elegant solution to UAC elevation.

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by noisy_boy »

Grimm1 wrote: post #58

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.

I used to use Guake but felt the need sometimes to be able to resize/move terminal open next to a window, say, for comparing something. So I instead setup a script to run a regular terminal such that it a) starts a terminal instance if none are running b) activates the terminal window if an instance is running and c) presses alt-tab to switch away from terminal if the terminal window is active. The script is bound to a shortcut key so basically I get the Guake type functionality (without the fancy drop-down of course) + can treat the terminal as just another window on the desktop.

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by oblio »

oblio wrote: post #53
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.

Is someone having reading comprehension issues?

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by mdiesel »

pbowyer wrote: post #59
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/

Look at AutoIt. It's a more traditional basic language, and iirc AHK was a fork of a very early version a few decades ago.

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by rashil2000 »

ossopite wrote: post #57
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)

That repo is extremely outdated. Here's the official(?) supercharged fork, which is actively developed - https://github.com/chrisant996/clink

Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode

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Post by NBJack »

uncleyo wrote: post #64
Too wrote: post #60

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?

Had been literally doing this first as a "poor man's" quake mode since moving away from ConEmu - pretty soon realised it was just enough for me. So I'd rather they find an elegant solution to UAC elevation.

Very curious as to why you moved away from ConEmu. Can you share the motivating factors? Anything to be concerned about?
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