Access (K)ubuntu console with a single key
Yakuake is a Quake-style terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology which makes the console more user friendly. If you need the ability to quickly pull down a console to run a few commands with a keystroke, and then make the console disappear again with another quick keystroke. YaKuake is exactly what you are looking for.
The interface is highly customizable, you can adjust the height, the width, the horizontal position you can change the keyboard shortcuts and make it retract automatically when it looses focus.
It uses the same terminal settings as Konsole and like Konsole it has multiple tabs so you can have more terminals running at the same time. If you exit KDE while YaKuake is still running in the background, it’ll start up automatically when you log back into KDE.
YaKuake is a very simple application, but it’s also very useful. I use it all the time when I want quick access to a terminal to run one or two commands, such as doing an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade, checking a man page to find the proper syntax for a command, or moving a few files around.
In ubuntu you can install YaKuake with a simple command
sudo apt-get install yakuake
YaKuake is released under GPL license and you can get it from the site:
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July 29th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Just a few more tidbits about Yakuake:
1. You don’t need to press another key to make Yakuake roll up/hide. There’s a setting in Yakuake that will automatically roll it up when it loses focus, that is, if you click somewhere else outside of Yakuake.
2. Yakuake is themeable too! You can make/use/share Yakuake skins.
3. With version 2.8 beta, Yakuake now offers split views. You can split horizontally or vertically.
Happy Yakuake’ing!
July 29th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
If you are a gnome user you might be better of with tilda (http://tilda.sourceforge.net/), which is in the universe repositories.
Yakuake had a dependency for several kde packages while tilda depends on gnome packages.
Beware! Both are addictive!
July 29th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
for pure gtk lightweightness + compiz/beryl friendliness you may also want to take a look at stjerm. it’s a treat with gnome, xfce, or even kde desktops