Show Tabs in Quake Mode

[i-love-code]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

When you have the quake-style console open, show the "Tab Bar" above the console so you can visualize & navigate between multiple open consoles.

The only way to do this today is to open the quake console (Win+`) and then use Win+Shift+T to open new tabs and Cntrl+T to navigate between them. It works, but it's almost impossible to know how many consoles/tabs you have open and select the correct one.

Use Case

It's a very common case for local .NET development I'm running:

• A console at the source control root (for git purposes)
• A console at (each) .NET project folder (running each "dotnet watch run")
• A console at (each) frontend application
• A console for running NPM unit tests

Having each of these in the quake-style console is ideal, which I can do, but I never know which tab is where since you can't see those tabs easily.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Ideally, it would just reuse the existing tab interface of the non-quake windows terminal and remove the top right minimize/maximize UI.

[zadjii-msft]

Thanks for the suggestion! This is actually already being tracked by another issue on our repo - please refer to #9992 for more discussion.

/dup #9992

[ghost]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

[jrogers512]

#9992 doesn't look like a duplicate of this. Or at least, it is a much more complex/broad issue than this rather simple one.

As it stands now, while in quake mode:

• I cannot see what tabs or open, or how many of them are open.
• I cannot quickly switch to the tab I'd like to (other terminals allow this by pressing alt+window number, or allow you to click on the tab. We cannot see the tab in the quake window, so there is nothing to click)
• when pressing Ctrl-D, typing exit, or logout, you see [process exited with code 127], but there is no way to close the tab (again, since I cannot see the tab at the top of the window, there is no option to select an X to close the tab, or right click the tab)

[zadjii-msft]

It's a little confusing how #9992 gets what you want, but lemme try to clarify:

• The _quake window is a kind of special window right now. Imagine that it has properties launchMode:focus, snapTo:top, minimizeToTray:true set.
• Add per-window-name global settings #9992 will let you change the properties for certain window names. So that would let you remove the launchMode:focus aspect of the _quake window.
• You can always just bind win+` to a plain-old globalSummon action. The terminal won't automatically snap to the top like the _quake window does, but we'll add that feature soon^tm
• In the _quake window, you can always leave focus mode with the Command Palette (on Ctrl+Shift+P)
• You can always close tabs with Ctrl+Shift+w
• You can already switch to various tabs with Ctrl+alt+1-9
• with "tabSwitcherMode": "inOrder", or "tabSwitcherMode": "mru", the tab switcher on Ctrl+tab will show you a list of tabs

Did I miss anything?

[ninjasitm]

Hello,

I'd like to say that we appreicate the work done on this project. It has come a long way and is absolutely getting better with every release.

However the solution proposed here is very ineligant.

A simple tab bar as described by @i-love-code would be the most efficent solution. For reference check out the solution implemented here https://github.com/flyingpie/windows-terminal-quake which does provide this UI.

[i-love-code]

For @ninjasitm and @jrogers512 and anyone finding this thread later:

I also don't agree with "Quake" mode not a better UI natively, but here's a quick workaround that works super well. It's not well documented but you can open the Quake mode and then Control + Shift + P which brings up the command palette inside the quake window and you search for "Focus" and you'll find an option called Toggle Focus Mode. It brings up tabs in the quake mode.

The setting doesn't get saved and it's super annoying to enable each time, but it is what it is.

[vaduveerappan]

You could also set the shortcut for the Toggle Focus mode on your settings.json to make @i-love-code suggestion easier
{ "command": "toggleFocusMode", "keys": "shift+f12" },

[NSurtsev]

Tabs in Quake mode should be displayed like in Linux, in the bottom of Quake-Terminal.
Just copy Linux. Everything has already been invented years ago.

[sryze]

I think the placement of tabs should be configurable, e.g. top or bottom, or hide them altogether / hide when only one tab is open (for tmux users).

[zadjii-msft]

@sryze We're tracking that in #835 and #7210, go 👍 those 😉

[zohozer]

I accidentaly got into this Quake mode and I can't find any way to return to the normal windows. How to disable this mode?

[b-hayes]

quake mode should just be a normal terminal that appears at from the top. No need for it to be different in any way. Its pretty silly not having the tabs in the first place imo. The so called duplicate issues seem to be covering a lot more than simply keeping tabs visible in quake mode. No need to customize them or do anything special just dont hide the tabs in quake mode.