windows-terminal-quake Flyingpie

WTQ v2

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

For Windows 10 & 11, and KDE Plasma 5 & 6 (Wayland only).

Documentation

Showcase

Windows 10

With Windows Terminal, Double Commander and Process Hacker.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/57372a68-ab69-4cb1-b70d-acf440e5368c

CachyOS - KDE Plasma 6

With WezTerm, Dolphin, System Monitor, KeePassXC and Spotify.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c1b386fc-9026-48d9-87e8-081a26b0ff45

Installation

Also see the documentation

Manual Download (Windows)

See the latest release, and pick a zip.

Scoop (Windows)

scoop install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flyingpie/windows-terminal-quake/master/scoop/wtq-latest.json

A shortcut is then available named WTQ - Windows Terminal Quake, or you can just run wtq from a command line or Win+R.

WinGet (Windows)

winget install windows-terminal-quake

You can then call wtq from the command line.

After having done that at least once, a shortcut will appear in the start menu, called WTQ - Main Window.

Flatpak (Linux)

TODO

Manual (Linux)

See the /linux/install-or-upgrade-wtq.sh script that downloads the latest version of WTQ, installs it to ~/.local/share/wtq, and creates a wtq.desktop file.

As a 1-liner:

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flyingpie/windows-terminal-quake/refs/heads/master/linux/install-or-upgrade-wtq.sh)

And the /linux/uninstall-wtq.sh uninstall script.

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flyingpie/windows-terminal-quake/refs/heads/master/linux/uninstall-wtq.sh)

> [!NOTE] > The WTQ configuration is not removed by this script. These are usually located at ~/.config/wtq.

Configuration

Also see the documentation

After starting WTQ, an icon will appear in the tray, which has some useful buttons in the context menu:

From there, the settings file can quickly be opened using "Open Settings File".

A JSON schema file should be generated next to the settings file, enabling intellisense-like features in supporting editors:

There's also an GUI available to configure WTQ, through the same context menu - "Open Main Window".

WTQ v1

WTQ started as a companion app to the new Microsoft's Windows Terminal, before a rewrite to v2 that supported other apps as well.

If you're missing a feature from v2, feel free to use v1 instead.

Companion program for the new Windows Terminal that enables Quake-style drop down.

• Runs alongside the new Windows Terminal
• Toggle using CTRL+~ or CTRL+Q (configurable, see below)
• Shows up on the screen where the mouse is (eg. multi-monitor and multi-workspace)
• Transparency
• Configurable as fullscreen, or partial screen

Usage

There are a couple of options:

• Download the latest release from the releases page.
• Clone/download the source and run build.ps1 (uses Cakebuild).
• Clone/download the source and build using Visual Studio.
• Via scoop: scoop install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flyingpie/windows-terminal-quake/master/scoop/windows-terminal-quake.json

See the documentation for more settings and information.