yakuake a great drop down console
 

Hi,

If you are a 'cli' user like I am then a console is important to me. Instead of minimizing a console app, I like to use yakuake which provides a hot key to drop down/up by pressing Fn12 to toggle. As a Slackware user I fetched a Slack.Build for yakuake

Other Gnu/Linux users may find yakuake in their repository. I like to keep my consoles available for feedback to LQ members when I am trying to help. With yakuake I can leave the terminal on the same Desktop and switch down/up when necessary.

For now, I will leave my 'konsole' on another Desktop but yakuake looks like it will be in my future for a long time. I can have a clean Desktop until I need a console then drop yakuake down in a moment without switching Desktops. You can tab yakuake to facilitate.

Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!
:hattip:

Could not agree more...that has been my go-to CLI for years now. Love the flexibility, and when you 'dock' it, it's TOTALLY gone..not even an icon. Pops up on any desktop just by hitting the hotkey.

Member Response
 

Hi,

Yes, it's a nice feature to have on-demand console without any clutter.

Over the years, I kept consoles on another Desktop. Now I can hot key at anytime on any Desktop to get a console. Great feature!

too many kde-specific deps for my tastes on an Xfce4 system.

I keep terminator open 24x7x365 anyway on a 2nd monitor.

i have that with openbox & urxvt anyway.
njet problem.

I have been using yakuake for a while now with my xfce4 system. Nice to have it available at the push of a button. I have tabs open which are 'ssh'ed to other my PCs.

I like the same functionality but prefer guake

been using yakuake for years, great program.

Hi ondoho - are you able to provide a link to instructions on how you set this functionality up?

I found a reference on crunchbang but was not able to get it to work?
I am curious as I too run openbox and like to have as little application impact as possible so this does intrigue me :)

i was just going to write a big how-to on openbox' versatility and urxvt's minimal resources, and how to implement a dropdown console solely by editing one config file - then i found =>yeahconsole<= (available for both debian and archlinux via aur).

it works as a wrapper for either xterm or urxvt.
its total installed size is 20kb, it works as a daemon, so you have to autostart it at login with however your DE handles that.
the default keybind is ctrl+alt+y, and the default terminal is xterm.
since xterm sucks, i changed it to urxvt by adding this line to ~/.Xresources:and issuingafter that.
there's loads and loads of config options, since you can use all of urxvt's config options seperately.

try
this one's a keeper.