Quake Windows Bash

Description

This is a simple AutoHotkey script for enabling Quake-like hiding and showing of Windows WSL bash terminal or Windows Terminal. You just hold down Control key and press Tilde / Backtick. 💾

It uses default minimizing and restoring animations, so there is almost no delay. ⚡

How to use

It's pretty straightforward: 🐭

• Download and install AutoHotkey (version 2 supported for Windows Terminal)
• Run quake-windows-bash.ahk or quake-windows-terminal-ahk2.ahk
• (Optionally) Place quake-windows-bash.ahk or quake-windows-terminal-ahk2.ahk into auto startup folder (Win+R: "shell:startup")
• Run bash and press CTRL + ` 🐤

Overcoming WSL rendering bug in Tmux & Vim

If you are experiencing some weird 👾 screen perturbations while restoring bash from minimized state, it's probably a bug caused by some incompatibility of WSL with tmux and vim. But do not worry. 😺 I have included some hack which automatically refreshes tmux upon restoring the bash window. You just need to find it in the source code (Ctrl+F: "tmux/vim") and remove the comments (;). Enjoy! 😋