Quake Modoki

Windows utility enabling Quake Mode behavior—any window slides in/out from screen edge via global hotkey.

Features

• 🎯 Track any window — Register current foreground window via Ctrl+Alt+Q
• 🎬 Smooth slide animation — 200ms cubic easing, DWM frame-synced
• 🧭 Smart direction detection — Auto-detect slide direction from window position
• 👁️ Auto-hide on focus loss — Window slides out when focus changes
• 🔄 State preservation — Original position/size/z-order restored on untrack
• 🖥️ System tray — Status, Untrack, Start with Windows, Exit
• 🔔 Desktop notification — Toast when window tracked
• 🚀 Auto-launch — Optional startup with Windows (Registry-based)
• 🖱️ Edge trigger — Show/hide by moving cursor to screen edge (toggleable)

Installation

cargo install quake-modoki --locked

Usage

Hotkey	Action
Ctrl+Alt+Q	Track current window
F8	Toggle window visibility

Tray icon menu: Untrack / Edge trigger / Start with Windows / Exit

Development

Pre-commit Hooks

# prek install
cargo install --locked prek

# enable hooks
prek install

Hooks: cargo fmt, cargo clippy, typos, trailing-whitespace, etc.

Made with

• Icon: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)
• Code: Claude Code

License

MIT OR Apache-2.0