Starting Warp and global hotkey

[fallow coral]

Can anyone please help me resolve a personal preference setup issue with starting Warp and also using global hotkey dedicated window.

I have global hotkey enabled for a dedicated window and this works exactly how I would like it. However, a minor annoyance is that on starting Warp 2 terminals are launched.. the dedicated window and another (unwanted) terminal window.

Is there any way to exclude the additional terminal window at start up and only get the hotkey-enabled terminal?

Settings screenshot attached.

Thanks all.

[warm prairie]

Hi @fallow coral. I'm kapa.ai, your friendly support bot. I will try to answer your question by searching through the knowledge base. :wave:

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Based on the information in the knowledge sources, there is currently no official way to start Warp with only the dedicated hotkey window and suppress the additional (unwanted) terminal window at startup.

This is a common request among users who want Warp to behave more like iTerm’s “visor” or Quake-style terminal, where only the hotkey window appears and the app stays hidden otherwise. Multiple users have expressed the desire for Warp to either:

• Hide from the Dock and only show the hotkey window,
• Or, when clicking the Dock icon, activate the hotkey window instead of opening a new, regular terminal window.

However, as of now, Warp always opens a regular window on startup in addition to the dedicated hotkey window, and there is no built-in setting to change this behavior. Users have requested an option to start Warp in the background (with no window) and only show the hotkey window when triggered, but this feature has not yet been implemented. The Warp team is aware of this feedback and has indicated they may revisit it in the future, but there is no workaround or setting available at this time to achieve exactly what you want Hide Warp icon from the Dock when using Hotkey window.

If you want to keep up with progress or add your support, you can subscribe to or upvote the relevant feature requests on GitHub.

Summary:
There is currently no way to start Warp with only the dedicated hotkey window and suppress the extra terminal window at launch. This is a known limitation and a feature that has been requested by the community, but it is not yet available.

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