Multiple Quake Windows can be opened

[SubsTheTechnomancer]

Windows Terminal version

1.16.10261.0

Windows build number

22000.1696

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

• Open a WT Instance and enter wt -w _quake
• With the quake window open, enter the shortcut keys for opening/closing a quake window (In my case, Win + `)

Expected Behavior

The already open quake window should minimize as is normal while using the quake shortcut.

Actual Behavior

A different quake window opens either above the current quake window or on the currently active screen (if using multiple screens).

[SubsTheTechnomancer]

This might be related to #14957. I would have dismissed this as intended behaviour if not for the tip and tricks page provided (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/tips-and-tricks). As an aside, I'm not sure what the intended behaviour is if, for example, you were to re-enter wt -w _quake a second time. Currently it creates a new tab in the existing quake window but I don't see any documentation related to this.

[zadjii-msft]

Do you have both Terminal Preview and Terminal stable installed? Are you possibly running one Terminal instance elevated (as admin)/?

I'd be sure that this isn't #14957 - that's only just been checked in and is only available on internal 1.18 builds.

Doing wt -w _quake a second time perhaps isn't documented the best. That implicitly turns into wt -w _quake new-tab, which essentially turns into "open a new tab in the window named _quake".

[SubsTheTechnomancer]

Are you possibly running one Terminal instance elevated (as admin)/?

By default, my terminal instances are elevated, yes. Is that the reason for this behaviour?

[zadjii-msft]

Probably - though, there should only be one _quake window for the elevated instances, and one single _quake window for the unelevated ones.

Can you check something for me quick/? In each of the open _quake windows, can you open the Command Palette (ctrl+shift+p), then perform the "Toggle focus mode" action? That should make the titlebar (and tabs) of the _quake window visible. Do both windows have a sheild icon in the top left, like so:

If they both do, that's very peculiar, and I might want to take a look at your settings.json file next.

If they DON'T both have one, then this is totally by design.

[SubsTheTechnomancer]

I did this, and yeah, the one instantiated by the command is not an elevated terminal, so it does seem to be by design. Unfortunately, then, I'm not sure how I would open an elevated quake window with the command, unless this is already documented.

[zadjii-msft]

Alright I think this is crazy. But here's my thoughts on what's going on

• you launch WT unelevated. This takes the global hotkeys.
• We evaluate the settings, and relaunch as an elevated instance. (presumably due to profiles.defaults.elevated=true).
• You launch wt -w _quake, which creates an elevated quake window.
• You press the hotkey - this somehow runs in the unelevated instance.

The issue that for some reason, the unelevated terminal instance is still running. Only one process can hold on to the global hotkeys.

The issue is that there's that first unelevated instance that's still running. That would be something to investigate.

[SubsTheTechnomancer]

I believe you may have swapped which instance in elevated and which is not, but I think the problem is still the same, except that it is the elevated instance that is getting priority over the global hotkeys.

[cypherfunc]

related/repeat of #11478?

[cypherfunc]

For reference, none of my quake tabs are elevated