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QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Post by mproud »

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…

You’re not the only one!

I figured this was the natural evolution of “hacking random device to be able to play DOOM” to “hacking the notch on my computer to play Quake.”

Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Post by trostaft »

hagbard_c wrote: post #54
pityJuke wrote: post #2

No comment on the app, but the website was not scrolling smoothly on my iPhone 15 Pro.

Odd, I see no performance problems at all on Firefox on Linux, this must be a Blink/Webkit thing.

I doubt it, since I saw it on my firefox+linux machine. Perhaps hardware? I was using AMD CPU + graphics.

Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Post by asdff »

1oooqooq wrote: post #57
asdff wrote: post #41

It makes the notch bigger ? No thanks.

it took me a while... i had to search. macs have notches now? and people think that's ok?

Yeah it sucks. I don't think its OK but I am saddled with it. You kind of forget about it sometimes and other times it's glaring.

Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Post by hagbard_c »

trostaft wrote: post #62
hagbard_c wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Odd, I see no performance problems at all on Firefox on Linux, this must be a Blink/Webkit thing.

I doubt it, since I saw it on my firefox+linux machine. Perhaps hardware? I was using AMD CPU + graphics.

Intel i7-6820HQ CPU/Graphics on a 9yo Thinkpad P50 which does have an NVidia Quadro M2000M but I only use it when needed through Prime. Firefox Nightly 141.0a1. Showing the animation at the top of the page runs up the GPU to 20%, repeatedly scrolling up and down the page using the scrollbar can get it up to about 75%. Scrolling remains smooth but sometimes the content on the top of the page takes a second to appear.

Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Post by crazygringo »

1oooqooq wrote: post #57
asdff wrote: post #41

It makes the notch bigger ? No thanks.

it took me a while... i had to search. macs have notches now? and people think that's ok?

It's OK because it lets the screen be bigger.

It's less of adding a notch, more of extending the screen upwards except where the camera is.

It didn't take away from any previous screen real estate.

(It does make something like Bartender even more necessary than before though. It's inexcusable Apple doesn't have a built-in solution for properly handling menu bar icons. But that's still a problem even without the notch.)

Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

Tried it out and it crashed so bad I had to force reset my M3 air.

It has functionality for showing active music. I was clicking around to try and disable this functionality. In doing so it launched Apple Music (software which I never use). MacOS asked for my permission to allow QuakeNotch to control music. I could not click on anything and had a permanent rainbow wheel. The force quit menu did not show QuakeNotch so I needed to hold the power button. That's an instant uninstall for me.

Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Post by hypercube33 »

lovehashbrowns wrote: post #53
Forgeties79 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Huh let’s what everyone talking about!” opens site, phone begins roasting “I don’t know what I expected.”

It really is so instant and oddly enough I don’t know if I remember the last time a site roasted my phone in this way.

How does the dev of this site not catch this kinda thing, serious question

Re: QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

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Post by antonvs »

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.

I’ve been using Linux since 1999 (thanks for the Halloween memos, Microsoft!) and this is the first I’m hearing of Quake terminals. I would also have assumed it involved the actual game somehow.
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