QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

Post by DrewRWx » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 8:18 PM UTC

addaon wrote: post #34

I want to love this, but it's basically an aesthetic experience, and I have two and a half complaints that prevent me from loving it: 1) It needs an option to be the exact height of the menu bar when collapsed. On my system, it's ~4 pts taller then the menu bar, which means it intrudes into the chrome of maximized windows. Ewww. The goal is to reclaim wasted space, not take more! 2) It pretty consistently drops frame…

Post by asdff » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 8:20 PM UTC

_0xdd wrote: post #24

I have never heard the fans on my 2021 16" MBP until I opened this website. GPU usage spiked to 65% when opening the site in Firefox, enough to trigger the fan on this otherwise silent machine.

Post by DrewRWx » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 8:25 PM UTC

staplung wrote: post #10

coolsunglasses wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Quake terminal" has been a term of art for a regular terminal that drops down from the top of the screen like the terminal in Quake did for the last 20-22 years. I remember this being a thing when I started using Linux back then. https://github.com/Guake/guake https://babbagefiles.xyz/quake-drop-down-terminal-history/ Yakuake, Kuake (2003), etc.

Oh, interesting. Surprised that I didn't already know that. Perhaps every time I encountered the term "quake terminal" I just assumed it literally meant the the Quake terminal proper. I'll let my original comment stand since it seems likely that at least some others will have the same impedance mismatch as I did. In any case, thanks for pointing it out.

Post by billyjmc » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 8:33 PM UTC

OptionX wrote: post #17

paulryanrogers wrote: post #14

Back in my Quake days we called it the (Quake) console. That said, they seem to be tempting fate by using "Quake" in the name and a logo very similar to Q1. Especially risky since they appear intent on selling it.

Windows terminal used the name quake mode for the similar functionality it offers and there of course the Yakuake that does the same on Linux. Haven't heard of anyone rattling the copyright chain about it yet.

Post by kgen » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 8:34 PM UTC

staplung wrote: post #5

Expectation: "Quake terminal" implies playing Quake, possibly in some Asciinema-type way. Maybe just starting the built-in Quake terminal without the game-play. Reality: a regular terminal that starts in the notch and expands to normal window. I guess it's somehow based on the terminal that was in Quake but that was only really used for issuing quake commands, not really for being a posix-compliant, VT-100 compatible…