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Old 10-31-2014, 10:46 AM   #1
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Thumbs up 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!
 
Old 10-31-2014, 01:28 PM   #2
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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.
 
Old 10-31-2014, 01:42 PM   #3
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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!
 
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too many kde-specific deps for my tastes on an Xfce4 system.

I keep terminator open 24x7x365 anyway on a 2nd monitor.
 
Old 10-31-2014, 03:20 PM   #5
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Pops up on any desktop just by hitting the hotkey.
i have that with openbox & urxvt anyway.
njet problem.
 
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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.
 
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I like the same functionality but prefer guake
 
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been using yakuake for years, great program.
 
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i have that with openbox & urxvt anyway.
njet problem.
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
 
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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:
Code:
yeahconsole*term: urxvt
and issuing
Code:
xrdb ~/.Xresources
after that.
there's loads and loads of config options, since you can use all of urxvt's config options seperately.

try
Code:
yeahconsole -h

this one's a keeper.
 
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