Value of CUR_DIR used to set a current directory for the tab, if specified. -n CUR_DIR, -new-tab= CUR_DIR - create new tab and select it.-f, -fullscreen - put Guake to fullscreen mode.Actually, you can just type guake, and it will toggle the visibility of already running instance. -t, -toggle-visibility - toggle the visibility of the terminal window.Here is the list of available options you may be interested in: You can use guake executable itself to send D-Bus messages. You can create tabs, assign names for them and also ask to run any specific command in any opened tab or just to show/hide Guake window, manually in a terminal or by creating a custom script for it.Įxample of such a script is given below this section.
Thus it can be used to start Guake in a user defined session. Like Yakuake, Guake allows to control itself at runtime by sending the D-Bus messages. # cp /usr/share/applications/sktop /etc/xdg/autostart/ You may want Guake to load on starting up Desktop Environment. Once installed, you can start Guake from the terminal with:Īfter guake has started you can right click on the interface and select Preferences to change the hotkey to drop the terminal automatically, by default it is set to F12.
#Installing guake terminal on ubuntu install#
Sudo apt-get install guakeThat's about it geeks :). You can install Guake in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, 10.10 and 10.04 by using the below command in your current Terminal window :D.
Run in full-screen by using the "F11" key. Notifications (notifies you about what it's up to, etc :) ). Once run, it'll automatically run on each desktop start-up.
#Installing guake terminal on ubuntu windows#
Open more than one Terminal windows as tabs. Chane themes/colors according to your needs. Although I said it takes half of your window, but yes you can change the window size with ease (it has a separate "preference" section for that). Once you're done playing with it :), simply push the "F12" key again and it'll be "hidden" into the notification area immediately. You can launch it using the "F12" keyboard short key and then Guake will open a terminal emulator (somewhat cool slider animated way) that takes about half of your screen and and displays on top of other windows. And you can access its "preference" window by right clicking on that. See that Green icon thing with the arrow, yup that's Guake :). The GUI is written in GTK+ toolkit and comes especially designed for the classic Gnom desktop but since it runs in the notification area rather than as an applet on the panels, although I haven't tested, but it should also work under the Unity desktop interface too. In that sense, Guake is an excellent little tool that serves the exact purpose I've mentioned in the above paragraph!. Well, personally I find it extremely easy to launch (usually using a short-cut key, which can also be set for the usual Terminal emulator that comes with your desktop too but.) but most importantly, unlike with the standard terminal emulator windows, you don't have to deal with a separate window thus you can access the GNU/Linux command-line like lightning fast and it's certainly less distracting if you usually have filled your screen with running programs or windows. What I meant by saying "unconventional" was that, what if we had a Terminal emulator that always runs in the background and launches using a drop-down (also called top-down) window that creates less "distractions"?. So if you deal with GNU/Linux commands, say for installing and removing applications, reseting settings to default values, to launch applications with administrative privileges, etc in daily basis, then wouldn't it be nice if we could have a bit "unconventional Terminal emulator"? but still with distributions like Ubuntu for instance, we can still get a lot of things done with ease and fast by using the awesome (not always though :D) Command-line interface. Although GNU/Linux has come a long way since the users had to rely on the command-line interface to interact with their PC.