Guake/guake
Guake
Guake is a drop-down terminal emulator for Linux built on the VTE widget, designed to appear instantly with a single configurable hotkey. It mimics the quake-style console by sliding down from the top of the screen, supporting full-screen toggling and transparency. The terminal manages multiple sessions as named tabs, with automatic naming from the running command and customizable switching shortcuts. It also adapts to multi-monitor setups by placing the window on the monitor under the mouse cursor or a designated screen.
Guake stands out with its ability to detect file paths and URLs in terminal output, allowing users to open them directly in an editor or web browser by clicking. It includes over 130 predefined color palettes with a live preview for quick appearance customization. Users can map custom keyboard shortcuts to control focus, transparency, font size, and other settings. A user-defined startup script can be executed automatically at launch to set up tabs and environment, and the terminal can export its visible output to a text file for later reference.
Additional capabilities include configuration synchronization across sessions via GSettings, automated terminal setup scripts, and support for opening specific files at a given line and column. The documentation and installation procedure are oriented toward Linux systems using standard package management.
Features
- Dropdown Terminal Emulators - Provides a quake-style drop-down terminal accessible with a single hotkey for instant command execution.
- Global Window Toggles - Registers a system-wide keyboard shortcut to instantly toggle terminal visibility from any application.
- Terminal Tab Managers - Manages multiple terminal sessions as named tabs with auto-naming and customizable switching shortcuts.
- Command-Line File and URL Openers - Detects file paths and URLs in terminal output and opens them directly in a configured editor or browser, with optional line and column support.
- Keyboard Shortcut Mappings - Provides a built-in system for mapping custom keyboard shortcuts to control terminal window focus, transparency, and font size.
- Terminal Emulators - Provides full VT102/xterm terminal emulation using the VTE library with Unicode support.
- Quake-Style - Provides a quake-style terminal with instant show/hide via hotkey, full-screen toggling, and transparency.
- Drop-Down Console Interfaces - Animates a terminal window sliding down from the top edge of the screen using X11 events.
- Terminal Tab Bars - Manages multiple terminal sessions as named tabs with automatic naming from the running command and customizable switching shortcuts.
- Clickable Terminal Patterns - Detects file paths and URLs in terminal output and opens them directly in an editor or browser on click.
- Hotkey-Accessible Terminals - Enables instant terminal show/hide via a user-configurable global keyboard shortcut.
- Terminal Color Schemes - Ships over 130 predefined color palettes with live preview for terminal appearance customization.
- Multi-Monitor Window Management - Positions the dropdown terminal on the monitor under the mouse cursor by querying XRandR.
- Multi-Monitor Break Displays - Displays the terminal window on a specific monitor or the one under the mouse cursor in multi-monitor setups.
- Command Line Interface - Drop-down terminal emulator for GNOME.
- Command Line Interfaces - Drop-down terminal emulator for GNOME.
- Graphical User Interfaces - Listed in the “Graphical User Interfaces” section of the The Book Of Secret Knowledge awesome list.
- GUI Terminal Emulators - Dropdown terminal for the GNOME desktop environment.
- Shells and Command Line - Drop-down terminal emulator for GNOME desktop environments.
- Terminal Emulators - Drop-down terminal for GNOME.
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