Quake mode ignoring "initialPosition", "initialCols","initialRows" settings

[mkanet]

I can't seem to get quake mode to open in the position and size specified by MS Terminal settings: initialPosition, initialCols,initialRows. Quake mode is taking up the entire width of my large display; completely ignoring these settings.

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? I couldn't find any information on this when searching online.

[j4james]

I believe this is intentional. It's emulating the way the drop-down console worked in the Quake video game. Quoting from the Terminal documentation:

When a window is in quake mode:

• The terminal is automatically snapped to the top half of the monitor.
• The window can no longer be resized horizontally or from the top. It can only be resized on the bottom.

[mkanet]

Thank you, I was hoping there was a way to do this natively. I guess I'll have to rely on https://github.com/flyingpie/windows-terminal-quake; which makes quake mode much more flexible.

[zadjii-msft]

You can always just use the globalSummon action (rather than the quakeMode action), which is more flexible. That can be used to hotkey-activate any terminal window you have open, not just the one named "_quake" (which has special properties)