Guake
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Guake is a drop-down terminal for GNOME Desktop Environment. Like similar terminals, it is invoked with a single keystroke, and hidden by pressing the same keystroke again.
Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games
such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again.
Guake follows the same line of Yakuake
and Tilda
, but it's an attempt to meld the best of them into a single GTK-based application. Guake has been written from scratch.
Running Guake is faster than launching a new terminal with a keyboard shortcut
because the program is already loaded into memory, and so can be useful to people who frequently find themselves opening and closing terminals for odd tasks.
Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games
PC game console
A console is a command line interface where the personal computer game's settings and variables can be edited while the game is running. Consoles also usually display a log of warnings, errors, and other messages produced during the program's execution...
such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again.
Guake follows the same line of Yakuake
YaKuake
Yakuake is a KDE terminal emulator. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again....
and Tilda
Tilda (software)
Tilda is a GTK+ terminal emulator. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, typically the tilde, and slide back up when the key is pressed again....
, but it's an attempt to meld the best of them into a single GTK-based application. Guake has been written from scratch.
Running Guake is faster than launching a new terminal with a keyboard shortcut
Keyboard shortcut
In computing, a keyboard shortcut is a finite set of one or more keys that invoke a software or operating system operation when triggered by the user. A meaning of term "keyboard shortcut" can vary depending on software manufacturer...
because the program is already loaded into memory, and so can be useful to people who frequently find themselves opening and closing terminals for odd tasks.
See also
- List of terminal emulators
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- Eterm
- rxvtRxvtrxvt is a terminal emulator for the X Window System , originally written by Rob Nation and later extensively modified by Mark Olesen, who took over maintenance for several years...
- xtermXtermIn computing, xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. A user can have many different invocations of xterm running at once on the same display, each of which provides independent input/output for the process running in it .xterm originated prior to the X Window System...
- KonsoleKonsoleKonsole is a free terminal emulator which is part of KDE Software Compilation. Konsole was originally written by Lars Doelle.The KDE applications Konqueror, Krusader, Kate, Konversation, Dolphin and KDevelop use Konsole to provide embedded terminal functionality.- Features :* Tabbed terminals...
- TildaTilda (software)Tilda is a GTK+ terminal emulator. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, typically the tilde, and slide back up when the key is pressed again....
- KuakeKuakeKuake is a KDE terminal emulator. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again....
- A former Yakuake project under KDEKDEKDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems... - YakuakeYaKuakeYakuake is a KDE terminal emulator. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again....
- Yet Another KuakeKuakeKuake is a KDE terminal emulator. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again....