Some way to exit out of focused mode #17264

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opened 2026-01-31 05:37:15 +00:00 by claunia · 2 comments
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Originally created by @win21H2 on GitHub (Apr 18, 2022).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

I have noticed when I wanted to go into focused mode for Terminal, I could not find any way to exit out of focused mode. Instead I had to uninstall it and install it back via Powershell and that can get a bit fustrating if you constantly have to uninstall/install Terminal every time you go into focused mode.

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I was thinking that maybe a keyboard shortcut such as the below to switch out of focused mode so that when the user presses them, the "taskbar" at the top of the Terminal application shows up
alt+x
or
alt+shift+x

Please tell me if I need to include any more details :)

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@237dmitry commented on GitHub (Apr 18, 2022):

You can set keyboard shortcut by yourself. Like this:

  "actions": [
    {
       ....
    },
    {
      "command": "toggleFocusMode",
      "keys": "alt+t"
    }
  ],
@237dmitry commented on GitHub (Apr 18, 2022): You can set keyboard shortcut by yourself. Like this: ``` "actions": [ { .... }, { "command": "toggleFocusMode", "keys": "alt+t" } ], ```
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Apr 18, 2022):

Yea there's already an action to toggle focus mode. You can open the command palette with ctrl+shift+p, then type "fomo", and that should give you the "toggle focus mode" action.

toggle-fomo

Sorry that you've had to uninstall the terminal to get out of it 😨

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Apr 18, 2022): Yea there's already an action to toggle focus mode. You can open the command palette with <kbd>ctrl+shift+p</kbd>, then type "fomo", and that should give you the "toggle focus mode" action. ![toggle-fomo](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/18356694/163797472-b35b33a7-1f92-4294-8ae2-e9c2571d0922.gif) Sorry that you've had to uninstall the terminal to get out of it 😨
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Reference: starred/terminal#17264