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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.
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.
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 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
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.
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