Guake 0.8.4 Terminal Emulator for Linux Ubuntu. How to install Guake top down terminal on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10 Systems. Guake is a dropdown terminal made for the GNOME desktop environment. Guake’s style of window is based on an FPS game, and one of its goals is to be easy to reach. Guake is mostly written in Python and has a little piece in C (https://github.com/engla/keybinder). The source code is placed in the guake directory. Files and images are in the data directory. Translation files are in the po directory.
Guake Terminal Emulator Features
- Lightweight
- Simple Easy and Elegant
- Smooth integration of terminal into GUI
- Appears when you call and disappears once you are done by pressing a predefined hotkey (F12 by default)
- Compiz transparency support
- Multi tab
- Plenty of color palettes
- Quick Open in your favorite text editor with a click on a file name (with line number support)
- Customizable hotkeys for tab access, reorganization, background transparency, font size,…
- Extremely configurable
- Configure Guake startup by running a bash script when Guake starts
- Multi-monitor support (open on a specified monitor, open on mouse monitor)
- Save terminal content to file
- Open URL to your browser
Guake 0.8.4 is the latest version of the Terminal Emulator. Guake 0.8.4 brings the following changes and bug-fixes:
- Very big icon tray
- Feature keyboard shorcut hide on lose focus
- Endless transparency and small rework of hide on lose focus
- fix tray icon does not align in center
- Updated pt_BR translation
- improved Bluloco theme readability
Install Guake 0.8.4 Terminal Emulator
Run the following commands to install the latest version of Guake Terminal Emulator on Linux Ubuntu Systems, via PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/unstable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install guake
Once installed, open the Guake from Ubuntu Dash.
If you wish to uninstall and remove Guake, run the command:
$ sudo apt-get remove guake