Install Guake Terminal on Ubuntu using WebUpd8 PPA. Fix “Have you installed guake.schemas properly?” error. Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake). Guake’s style of window is based on an FPS game, and one of its goals is to be easy to reach.
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
Install Guake on Ubuntu
Ubuntu users can install Guake Terminal by using the WebUpd8 PPA. Open Terminal and run the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/unstable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install guake
Once installed, open Guake from Ubuntu Dash. It can be involed/start using F12 key. When active, Guake terminal icon is displayed in the Ubuntu Panel Bar.
Guake Error
Have you installed guake.schemas properly? This is the most common error message that occurs because the guake.schemas file is not found in the correct location. Ubuntu users can easily fix this error by running the following commands:
sudo mkdir /etc/gconf/schemas
cd /etc/gconf/schemas/
sudo ln -s /usr/share/gconf/schemas/guake.schemas
Once done, try launching Guake again.
More Info:
- http://guake-project.org/
- https://github.com/Guake/guake