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Does WezTerm support an equivalent of iTerm's "hotkey window"? For those unfamiliar, that's a window tied to a show/hide keybinding which when shown floats abo

Does WezTerm support an equivalent of iTerm's "hotkey window"? For those unfamiliar, that's a window tied to a show/hide keybinding which when shown floats above all other windows, making a terminal instantly available everywhere - a feature I could live without, but don't care to. I'd love to switch for all of WezTerm's other features, but without that it's simply a nonstarter for me.

lambdaba 2y ago
You can set this up very easily with Hammerspoon, and have it work with whichever terminal or app you want.
ssijak 2y ago
That is the first thing I configure in iTerm. To have it slide down like Quake terminal, and hide it from the dock
- organsnyder 2y ago
  Yakuake is usually the first app I install on a fresh KDE system.
lupusreal 2y ago
If you use X, you can use tdrop to do this with any window. I have it set up with kitty, pcmanfm, and emacs client.
- adammarples 2y ago
  X?
  - vladvasiliu 2y ago
    X11, the "old" [0] Linux graphics server. --- [0] "old" because there's a new kid in town: wayland.
    - bgm1975 2y ago
      And a middle-age'd man named XFree86 lol.
    - naikrovek 2y ago
      I’ve been reading about Wayland since around 2010 and it still isn’t ubiquitous, and still doesn’t work everywhere. How long can we call something that’s at least 15 years old “the new kid”?
      - mega-tux 2y ago
        Wayland has arrived in lot of distros as default graphics server pretty recently, that's why it is OK to be called the new kid, IMO.
- mst 2y ago
  https://github.com/noctuid/tdrop https://github.com/noctuid/tdrop is really rather interesting. Thank you.
technojamin 2y ago
Not out of the box, but I use Hammerspoon to implement a global hotkey to show WezTerm: https://github.com/jaminthorns/environment/blob/a609e81f3f4179d3c60b60bd729e6424916d3655/config/hammerspoon/init.lua#L21-L22 https://github.com/jaminthorns/environment/blob/a609e81f3f41... I don't have a keybinding to hide, but you could easily achieve that by inspecting the active window with `hs.window.focusedWindow()`/`hs.window.frontmostWindow()` and making the behavior conditional based on the application: https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.window.html#focusedWindow https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.window.html#focusedWindo... In WezTerm, you can control whether the terminal is always on top with the `ToggleAlwaysOnTop` action: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/keyassignment/ToggleAlwaysOnTop.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/keyassignment/Togg...
- pmarreck 2y ago
  I was unfamiliar with Hammerspoon; to those like me, https://www.hammerspoon.org/ https://www.hammerspoon.org/
  - spartanatreyu 2y ago
    I use it to add window snapping to macos: https://gist.github.com/spartanatreyu/850788a0441e1c5565668a35ed9a1dfc https://gist.github.com/spartanatreyu/850788a0441e1c5565668a...
- DavideNL 2y ago
  Note that this does only the “show/hide’ the window part; The iTerm2 hotkey window, is a floating window, which for example also works in a space with another Fullscreen window/app opened (without moving to another space.)
  - matthewmc3 2y ago
    You can get the rest of the way there by combining the Hammerspoon method of launching with WezTerm's ToggleAlwaysOnTop feature. I use a similar method described here: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/1751#issuecomment-2299991133 https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/1751#issuecomment-2299... You could probably even use Hammerspoon to initiate the keyboard shortcut if you didn't want to mark the window manually.
ainka-ainka 2y ago
I do it using https://gist.github.com/meowtochondria/8b99b8fbf364eec41ef664138b43b2f5 https://gist.github.com/meowtochondria/8b99b8fbf364eec41ef66... on my Debian based machine running X11. I've bound this script to a key as a global shortcut using OS provided facilities. See the comment on gist if you have a different setup and want to adapt it to your needs. Algo: 1. Find path to wezterm binary by looking at desktop file 2. Use pgrep to get pid of running binary from previous step. 3. If no window is running, launch desktop file using gio 4. If window is running, bring it to front using wmctrl
wyclif 2y ago
Is the setting you're talking about the one under Settings>General>Startup>Window Restoration Policy>Only Restore Hotkey Window, or something else?
- throwanem 2y ago
  That's related to it, but the feature per se is more like a specially handled variety of iTerm's profiles. See https://iterm2.com/documentation-hotkey.html https://iterm2.com/documentation-hotkey.html, section "Dedicated Hotkey Windows".

lambdaba 2y ago

You can set this up very easily with Hammerspoon, and have it work with whichever terminal or app you want.

ssijak 2y ago

That is the first thing I configure in iTerm. To have it slide down like Quake terminal, and hide it from the dock

organsnyder 2y ago
Yakuake is usually the first app I install on a fresh KDE system.

lupusreal 2y ago

If you use X, you can use tdrop to do this with any window. I have it set up with kitty, pcmanfm, and emacs client.

adammarples 2y ago
X?
- vladvasiliu 2y ago
  X11, the "old" [0] Linux graphics server. --- [0] "old" because there's a new kid in town: wayland.
  - bgm1975 2y ago
    And a middle-age'd man named XFree86 lol.
  - naikrovek 2y ago
    I’ve been reading about Wayland since around 2010 and it still isn’t ubiquitous, and still doesn’t work everywhere. How long can we call something that’s at least 15 years old “the new kid”?
    - mega-tux 2y ago
      Wayland has arrived in lot of distros as default graphics server pretty recently, that's why it is OK to be called the new kid, IMO.
mst 2y ago
https://github.com/noctuid/tdrop https://github.com/noctuid/tdrop is really rather interesting. Thank you.

technojamin 2y ago

Not out of the box, but I use Hammerspoon to implement a global hotkey to show WezTerm: https://github.com/jaminthorns/environment/blob/a609e81f3f4179d3c60b60bd729e6424916d3655/config/hammerspoon/init.lua#L21-L22 https://github.com/jaminthorns/environment/blob/a609e81f3f41... I don't have a keybinding to hide, but you could easily achieve that by inspecting the active window with `hs.window.focusedWindow()`/`hs.window.frontmostWindow()` and making the behavior conditional based on the application: https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.window.html#focusedWindow https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.window.html#focusedWindo... In WezTerm, you can control whether the terminal is always on top with the `ToggleAlwaysOnTop` action: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/keyassignment/ToggleAlwaysOnTop.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/keyassignment/Togg...

pmarreck 2y ago
I was unfamiliar with Hammerspoon; to those like me, https://www.hammerspoon.org/ https://www.hammerspoon.org/
- spartanatreyu 2y ago
  I use it to add window snapping to macos: https://gist.github.com/spartanatreyu/850788a0441e1c5565668a35ed9a1dfc https://gist.github.com/spartanatreyu/850788a0441e1c5565668a...
DavideNL 2y ago
Note that this does only the “show/hide’ the window part; The iTerm2 hotkey window, is a floating window, which for example also works in a space with another Fullscreen window/app opened (without moving to another space.)
- matthewmc3 2y ago
  You can get the rest of the way there by combining the Hammerspoon method of launching with WezTerm's ToggleAlwaysOnTop feature. I use a similar method described here: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/1751#issuecomment-2299991133 https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/1751#issuecomment-2299... You could probably even use Hammerspoon to initiate the keyboard shortcut if you didn't want to mark the window manually.

ainka-ainka 2y ago

I do it using https://gist.github.com/meowtochondria/8b99b8fbf364eec41ef664138b43b2f5 https://gist.github.com/meowtochondria/8b99b8fbf364eec41ef66... on my Debian based machine running X11. I've bound this script to a key as a global shortcut using OS provided facilities. See the comment on gist if you have a different setup and want to adapt it to your needs. Algo: 1. Find path to wezterm binary by looking at desktop file 2. Use pgrep to get pid of running binary from previous step. 3. If no window is running, launch desktop file using gio 4. If window is running, bring it to front using wmctrl

wyclif 2y ago

Is the setting you're talking about the one under Settings>General>Startup>Window Restoration Policy>Only Restore Hotkey Window, or something else?

throwanem 2y ago
That's related to it, but the feature per se is more like a specially handled variety of iTerm's profiles. See https://iterm2.com/documentation-hotkey.html https://iterm2.com/documentation-hotkey.html, section "Dedicated Hotkey Windows".