Terminal: Support fullscreening with Win+Shift+Enter

Created on 1 Mar 2020  路  7Comments  路  Source: microsoft/terminal

Hello, I know this app will full-screen with Alt+Enter and F11
Please add a new keyboard shortcut for full-screen: Win+Shift+Enter
Why?! Because all universal apps became full-screen with Win+Shift+Enter
Thanks.

Area-User Interface Help Wanted Issue-Task Product-Terminal

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I suppose if other UWP apps use this keybinding, then we could too. The system already set a precedent that this key chord is used for that, so we could use it too, I don't feel bad about hijacking it in this case.

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I suppose if other UWP apps use this keybinding, then we could too. The system already set a precedent that this key chord is used for that, so we could use it too, I don't feel bad about hijacking it in this case.

Yeah, I don't see why not.

I was trying to work this out, however I found that currently there is no support for windows key modifier. Also based on comments in #4329, there's no plan to implement it.

I'm wondering how we can bring in this feature if the modifier cannot be added. Does the terminal support any win key based shortcuts right now?

Since Win+Shift+Enter is a _system_ keybinding that's usually bound to fullscreen UWP applications, we can special-case that keybinding to fullscreen the Terminal, so it behaves like other apps on the system. It would not be a general-purpose "users can bind the Win key", it would be a one-off special case.

Powershell and command prompt have fullscreen on alt + shift + enter. How about staying consistent with them?

Uh, powershell and command prompt have fullscreen on _alt+enter_. Terminal does too. It works today.

By habit from visual studio I always only tried alt + shift + enter. Never realized just shift + enter worked. Makes sense now, Thanks!

So basically, in that case, there is kind of a bug where holding an additional key doesn't work in the terminal but does in command prompt and powershell.

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