DuctapeWare Part 1

DuctapeWare [duhk-tayp-wair]
Noun

This is where you use ductape, glue, and dreams to Frankenstein multiple pieces of software together to achieve some sort of goal or automation, that you’re probably only ever going to use once but, like… its cool tho.

The Idea

I’ve been using windows terminal and i really like the quake mode. Lucky me it was not until i fully personalized my terminal before i realized how underdeveloped the mark mode is, for example.

Why are find bindings ignored in the FIND WINDOW??

They decided to keep it that way and as a person that tries to only use my keyboard and treat my mouse like the plague this offends me.

So i decided to switch to wezterm and make my own quake mode :D

Profit?

Wezterm Docs are very well written so i had no issue getting something working using the CLI tool.

./wezterm.exe `
--config "window_decorations='NONE'" `
--config "hide_tab_bar_if_only_one_tab=true" `
--config "initial_cols=190" `
--config "initial_rows=15" `
start --position 0,0

Powershell

I already use Kanata so i used that as the main trigger, AutoHotkey can also work here. Right now i have it set to a Kanata alias.

(defalias
  wez (cmd wezterm.exe 
  --config "window_decorations='NONE'" 
  --config "hide_tab_bar_if_only_one_tab=true" 
  --config "initial_cols=190" 
  --config "initial_rows=15" 
  start --position 0,0)
)

Kanata

Profit!

Works like a charm, i want to make it so it automatically hides on repress but that’s like, work… yuck.