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flyingpie / windows-terminal-quake

Enable Quake-style dropdown for (almost) any application.

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How to run this? #1

Closed ksawerykarwacki closed 5 years ago

ksawerykarwacki commented 5 years ago

Should i run this from WIndows Terminal or as a separate process? If i run it from Windows terminal then can I run it in the background somehow or do I need another tab for my regular work?

flyingpie commented 5 years ago

Hello @ksawerykarwacki! The latest version contains a tray icon, which removes the need to run a separate terminal. Let me know if that solves your problem!

ksawerykarwacki commented 5 years ago

Now it works flawless, thanks! I may try to play with the code to keep original size of window and try to remove titlebar for full quake-like experience. Have you though about it?

flyingpie commented 5 years ago

@ksawerykarwacki Great! I haven't, cause I like my terminal fullscreen, but feel free to mess around :). Are you not using the tabs, that appear in the titlebar?

ksawerykarwacki commented 5 years ago

I just want to get rid of the minimize/maximize/close menu. I tried GWL_Style but without any results.

I forked your copy and added few things:

when process is not found it spawns the new one
size of the window is preserved
when switching to open window is forced to stay on top of other windows (another approach would require some kind of listener to hide when focus is lost otherwise it behaves strange)

I think it is not that bad as my first day with C# :)

I should probably add some configuration but at this point I'm not sure if it is still worth to pursue this or just refresh my long forgotten c++ and fork terminal itself. Do you plan to migrate this to native terminal code?

flyingpie commented 5 years ago

@ksawerykarwacki I would, though I'd like to do it through the process of making a spec first so it'll ultimately get merged into the master repo. I also want to make it configurable and whatnot.

So this is originally meant as a quick-and-dirty workaround to get a Quake-style into Windows Terminal and do some prototyping of different features before trying out a native feature.

ksawerykarwacki commented 5 years ago

@flyingpie Great! If you need any help let me know as I'm heavy user of quaked conemu and I have a lot of edge cases like screens with different scaling in single config etc. As for now I'm closing this one as there is no more issues :)