Feature request: Presentation mode

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
cli, desktop

Research direction

The issue does not name files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the existing profile settings and profile-switching behavior in Windows Terminal, then determine how configurable font and color changes could toggle while preserving the prior profile settings. Done means presentation mode can enter and exit with both settings restored.

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Description

Area-Extensibility Issue-Feature Product-Terminal

Description of the new feature/enhancement

It would be great if Terminal provides a feature to switch to a "presentation mode".

Presentation mode means:

  • Switch to a configurable font size
  • Switch to a configurable color scheme (foreground / background color) for better contrast

The presentation mode should toggle to the better contrast / larger font and also be able to toggle back to the previous profile settings.

Additional info:

I really like to give talks, and if I happen to have some things I need to show on console, I'd love to use Terminal. However, I don't want to add new additional profiles just for presentations, and then copy the presentation profiles over to different shells (which would in fact double my profile count). Also, if I want to change stuff on the presentation profiles, I'd have to do every change for every presentation profile.

So adding separate presentation profiles is just a hacky workaround that involves a lot of work.

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