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Adjust styling of quake window (default height, etc)

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#11,162 opened on Sep 6, 2021

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Description of the new feature/enhancement

Adjust default styling of Quake Window

Unless I'm missing something, there is no documented way to adjust the styling of the drop-down Quake window. For example, I would like my Quake dropdown window to take up 80% of screen height by default, not just 50%. Even if I resize the quake window from 50% to a different size, after I close the window and re-open it via the Hotkey it will resize back to the default of 50%.

If there is currently a way to do this, I'd love to know. Thanks!

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Investigate the codebase to locate where the quake window initial height is defined (likely in TerminalPage or related XAML/C++ files). Then propose a mechanism to make it configurable via settings (e.g., JSON file or command line argument).
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