Start Windows Terminal Quake Mode at Logon

The already absolutely fantastic Windows Terminal has a cool new trick: a Quake-like shade you can drop down over your desktop workspace anytime by typing Win+`.

The only trouble? This shortcut isn’t active until you’ve launched Windows Terminal at least once. From then, it’ll stay running in your system tray taskbar corner like this:

If you enable Windows Terminal to run on startup, this sort of achieves the desired effect, but it just opens as a plain Terminal window when you login. Instead, create yourself a shortcut inside shell:startup that points to this command:

wt.exe -w _quake

Now when you login, you will see the Quake Mode shade appear, and you can click away or type Win+` to hide it until you need it.