"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.

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.

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

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.

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!! :)

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

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

I think this kind of functionality has been called "Quake Terminal" for quite some time now...

It's a "Quake-style terminal", much like Guake or Yakuake, no need to be pedantic.

Totally agree, I even grew up in the quake/dn3d era and wasn't familiar with the term either!

Yeah, never heard the term "quake terminal" before, and I used to play Quake and use Yakuake. Even in Quake it was always the console, never the terminal, because it wasn't a terminal.

You’re not the only one!

I figured this was the natural evolution of “hacking random device to be able to play DOOM” to “hacking the notch on my computer to play Quake.”