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Termux add-on app to show the terminal in a floating terminal window.
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API (CLI) to minimize Termux:Float #52

Open mentalisttraceur opened 1 year ago

mentalisttraceur commented 1 year ago

It would be really great if there was a termux-float-minimize command which programmatically did what the button in the top left does: tell Termux:Float to minimize.

I want this because it would be much more ergonomic and fast for me to hit keys on my keyboard where my thumbs already are than to move/stretch my hands or fingers up to the top of my floating Termux - especially when floating Termux is fairly large, so for example:

  1. I would bind a key in Emacs to execute this command (and Emacs is my shell, terminal multiplexer, and so on, and I can do everything I might do in Termux through Emacs, so this would basically give me a universal super fast super ergonomic way to switch out of Termux:Float), and
  2. I would write various functions/scripts to end their actions by minimizing Termux, because there are some workflows/actions after which I often or even always want to switch out of Termux.

In fact, I think this would be so huge for me that it would single-handedly flip my usage from almost entirely regular Termux to almost entirely floating Termux.

mentalisttraceur commented 1 year ago

This is another feature which I would be super happy to do the work to try to implement and PR if the idea isn't rejected.

mentalisttraceur commented 1 year ago

Of course, if I wasn't using Emacs for everything, I would bind keys in zsh, Neovim, and tmux to call this command, giving me almost the same coverage for always being able to super ergonomically switch out of a large floating Termux.