Guake — A New Drop-down Terminal for GNOME

September 27th, 2007 · Posted by Toor · 11 Comments

Guake is a new drop-down terminal for GNOME. It is quite similar to Tilda and Yakuake. Guake supports hotkeys, tabs, background transparent, etc. It’s really very nice program.

Installation

For Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) users, get deb package of Guake from here. Run this command in terminal:

sudo dpkg -i guake_0.1-1_i386.deb

For other Linux distributions, download source package of Guake from here. Then run the following commands:
tar zxvf guake-0.1.tar.gz cd guake-0.1/ ./configure && make sudo make install

Usage

To launch Guake, click Applications → Accessories → Guake Terminal menu item.

Here’s some hotkeys:

F12 — Toggle terminal visibility
Ctrl + Shift + t — New tab
Ctrl + Page Up — Go to previous tab
Ctrl + Page Down — Go to next tab

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11 responses so far ↓

1 GG // Oct 7, 2007 at 2:56 pm

Could You give us name/link to wallpaper?
2 toor // Oct 7, 2007 at 5:20 pm

@GG: You can find it from here:

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details.php?id=1341
3 Rokas // Oct 31, 2007 at 2:36 pm

Hi, I’m using Gutsy Gibon, I want to thank you for this deb package, but I’m getting this when I’m trying to load it:

Gconf Error.
Have you installed guake.schemas properlly?

P.S.

Send me e-mail if you can

Thanks, Rokas
4 toor // Oct 31, 2007 at 5:56 pm

@Rokas: Please run the following command:

gconftool-2 --install-schema-file=/usr/etc/gconf/schemas/guake.schemas
5 Gutsy+Ati user // Nov 2, 2007 at 4:44 pm

gconftool2 did the trick. It starts.
But no-go under compiz
Same thing with Tilda.
6 John // Nov 14, 2007 at 1:58 am

I use compiz to place my windows centered. I want it to ignore guake. What window tile do I use? I have tried Guake 0.0.1alpha, Guake-Terminal, and Guake.

Thanks
7 exige // Dec 6, 2007 at 12:03 am

After i hide the terminal for the first time, and then try to bring it back up with F12, I get a completely gray window with nothing painted on it. Is anyone elsehaving this problem? If I restart the app, it works the first time again and then proceeds to have the same problem.
8 Alp // Dec 18, 2007 at 12:20 am

I’ve exactly the same problem, exige. I don’t know how to fix that. I’m running compiz, too.
9 karthik // Dec 24, 2007 at 7:51 am

I have the same problem; only, I’m not even running Compiz.
10 tkthekiller // Jan 20, 2008 at 12:52 pm

had the same problem with Compiz, but founc a solution
Right click the Guake icon and choose Options
then Cross away “Animate on “show and hide”"
Now it will work really neat =)!
11 Gabriel Falcão // Jun 3, 2008 at 8:01 pm

New version of guake released!
Check on official website: guake-terminal.org

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