Kitty: Quake mode

Created on 15 Mar 2018  路  4Comments  路  Source: kovidgoyal/kitty

Would be amazing if you could implement a Quake Mode that would run on Wayland.
It is sort of related to #391, as we would need to completely hide the window when the drop down is hidden, but pull it back and resume where we left off when you show it again.

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@Jomik Fwiw, tdrop supports kitty and Gnome.

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This is not the purview of individual applications. It is the job of the window manager to show and hide windows on key presses. A bit of googling will show you scripts for various window managers to achieve this, and of course if you use a tiling window manager, it is available out of the box.

I agree, I suppose :+1: May require #391 to get the effect of being able to resume a completely hidden session then.
I haven't really figured out how to get a quakemode dropdown on Gnome :cry: Used to use Tilix, but they disabled the behavior for Wayland.

You dont need #391 for that. A simple minimize will do the trick. I use a similar technique with a tiling window manager all day long. I can call up various kitty windows with special keypresses instantly, I simply have my window manager distribute kitty windows to different "groups" based on their window class/role.

@Jomik Fwiw, tdrop supports kitty and Gnome.

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