Now do tiling wm and package manager (with easy source builds from recipes) and it'll start to become a decent OS.
...and of course provide an easy way to turn off all the spyware.
Windows Terminal Quake Mode
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Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode
#12Been using this type of style on iTerm2 for a while.
iTerm is so good I’d happily pay for it.
Edit: just found they have a donate page, donated.
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#13Please come up with reverse searches and forward searches in terminal and I swear I will change my primary OS to Windows.
I’ve been using Ctrl+Shift+f in Windows Terminal for this (it searches terminal output/its scroll back buffer).
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#14> 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
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#15Now do tiling wm and package manager (with easy source builds from recipes) and it'll start to become a decent OS.
Have you seen choclatey?
Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode
#16Now do tiling wm and package manager (with easy source builds from recipes) and it'll start to become a decent OS.
They do have an official not-quite tiling VM: FancyZones[1]. I don't know how good it is, but it's open source. I personally use AquaSnap [2] (commercial, 18 USD) for my window tiling & snapping needs which has definitely been a worthy purchase. [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzone... [2] https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/aquasnap
I have been using FancyZones for about a year. It's not quite a twm, it allows you to redefine the snap zones but they are fixed/static. There's also very little in the way of shortcuts to control them.
Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode
#17Now do tiling wm and package manager (with easy source builds from recipes) and it'll start to become a decent OS.
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
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#18I really like that this is documented. huge respect for that. this could just be some gimmick thrown in. taking the time to give this capability some context, done definition, it feels real good. it makes it culturally enduring. this is spec #653, an early-ish idea. but it cites & builds atop spec #5000, process model 2.0, which specifically cites quake mode as a capability the new process model enables (and also tab…
It's not a gimmick. It's something supported by the leading terminal emulators on pretty much every other desktop environment for the last 10 years and it's a massive productivity boost for people working on single screens (like a laptop).
I agree that the level of documentation for this feature is really quite impressive though. It shows that they're investing time to do this properly rather than rushing through some half baked feature out of fear of playing catch up.
Re: Windows Terminal Quake Mode
#19Now do tiling wm and package manager (with easy source builds from recipes) and it'll start to become a decent OS.
Apparently they’re working on an official package manager, open source even:
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#20Being a user of Cmder (ConEmu), I have been waiting for this for a long time. Thank you to OP for naking me aware that this is now available