macOS: Quick Terminal shouldn't autohide for dragging operations

[mitchellh]

Discussed in https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/4868

^{Originally posted by aaronk6 January 9, 2025} It would be great if Quick Terminal stayed open when dragging a file, e.g., from Finder. It seems that the current behavior is that Quick Terminal closes as soon as a click outside is registered.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/df4ef461-61ec-4cd2-8578-55e823c94107

I often drag a file to the terminal to use its path as an argument. It would be great if this could also be supported for Quick Terminal.

Notes

I'm not actually sure how to detect this behavior or if its possible at all, so this issue may be closed as "impossible/impractical" if that ends up being the case.

[DoctorRainer]

Just use quick-terminal-autohide = false

[aaronk6]

That’s not really a solution, see my comment here: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/4868#discussioncomment-11806305

[mjdouglas]

When I tried this out on mainline with macOS 15.6.1, Quick Terminal already seems to behave this way.

[bo2themax]

Fixed in https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/4049, by changing from NSWindow to NSPanel

[aaronk6]

Hmm, maybe there is a misunderstanding, but it isn’t working for me (tested 1.2.3 and the tip version). As soon as I click a desktop icon, quick terminal will vanish.

[bo2themax]

Hmm, maybe there is a misunderstanding, but it isn’t working for me (tested 1.2.3 and the tip version). As soon as I click a desktop icon, quick terminal will vanish.

Thanks, it is. I was testing with Ghostty as the frontmost application, in which it will work, but not with other apps as the frontmost