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"Quake terminal" has been a term of art for a regular terminal that drops down from the top of the screen like the terminal in Quake did for the last 20-22 years. I remember this being a thing when I started using Linux back then.

https://github.com/Guake/guake

https://babbagefiles.xyz/quake-drop-down-terminal-history/

Yakuake, Kuake (2003), etc.

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Oh, interesting. Surprised that I didn't already know that. Perhaps every time I encountered the term "quake terminal" I just assumed it literally meant the the Quake terminal proper.

I'll let my original comment stand since it seems likely that at least some others will have the same impedance mismatch as I did.

In any case, thanks for pointing it out.

No worries, mate! When the popular narrative is "you can run Doom on a pregnancy test" your blind spot tracks.

By the bye, I know Foone hates their threads being posted here, so I won't, but I absolutely adore their hardware and software finagling. It's also made me a better developer!

I’ve been using Linux since 1999 (thanks for the Halloween memos, Microsoft!) and this is the first I’m hearing of Quake terminals. I would also have assumed it involved the actual game somehow.

I think the much more common name is the console? I never heard about a Quake “terminal” tbh. It has always been the console to input console command.

Interesting. Pretty sure it was called the 'console' in Quake. Guess it's a microscopic step from 'console' to 'terminal'.

Yes, I remember yakuake. Today I use tilda[1], it is really nice.

[1] https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda

TIL and TIL Windows Terminal supports it, and by default it uses tilde key like the real one that's not available in my keyboard. pain.

It never stopped being a thing!! :)

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