Guake Terminal──linux under the perfect and handsome terminal

Although many Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, are now largely available in the GUI to accomplish most of the general tasks. However, the terminal program is still essential for Linux users.

Gnome's gnome-terminal is good, simple, easy to use, and already supports multiple tags. However, if you want the terminal to start automatically and run in the background, if you prefer to hide and display the terminal more quickly, if you are more accustomed to using shortcut keys, then Guake is definitely a better choice.

There is an article (http://blog.csdn.net/u013634961/article/details/39534521) that introduces some of the useful terminals under Linux, but the best way to use it is by comparing it with the guake.

What is Guake?

Official statement: Guake is a drop-down terminal for GNOME Desktop environment, so we just need to press a key to invoke him, and Pres s again to hide. Guake supports hotkeys, tabs, background transparent, etc

The translation is as follows: Guake is a drop-down in the GNOME desktop environment of the terminal program, so you just need to press a key to call him, and then press again to hide him. Guake supports features such as shortcut keys, labels, background transparency, and more.

Objectively speaking, Guake is not better than the default gnome-terminal, but it is much more convenient, especially for those who use the terminal often or sometimes. If you open more than 5 times a day the terminal program, then Guake is more suitable for you.

Installing Guake

Guake is also the software in the Ubuntu software warehouse, can be installed in the same way as the previous installation of the configuration Editor, or use the new software package Manager to install, of course, you can also use the command line: sudo apt-get install Guake.

The use and interface of Guake

After Guake loader memory, there are two ways you can call up Guake: Use the shortcut key F12 or click the Guake icon in the GNOME Panel notification area. The software interface is as follows

Of course, this is I set up the future, this setting is very simple, the right mouse button and then select the preferences can be set according to their own needs:

Shortcut keys and their customization

[Global shortcut key]

F12: Shows/hides the Guake program interface.

[Local shortcut key]

Ctrl+shift+t: Create new tab page;

Ctrl+shift+w: Close the tabs;

Ctrl+shift+c: Copy;

Ctrl+shift+v: Paste;

Ctrl+pageup: Switch to the previous label;

Ctrl+pagedown: Switch to the next tab;

(The above six shortcuts are consistent with the Gnome terminal.) ）

F11: Switch to/exit full screen mode;

For some reason, you may need to customize the Guake shortcut keys. For example, on my Ubuntu, I decided to change the shortcut keys for the Guake's Show/Hide program interface because of a conflict with the shortcut keys for Hedgewars (an open-source cross-platform game similar to the 2D version of the Battle bug). The default is F12, in order to avoid conflicts with other programs ' shortcut keys, I decided to use the SUPER+G key combination (because the Linux program uses less Windows logo keys, this key is mapped to super in Ubuntu by default). In Guake's program preferences, there is the ability to customize keyboard shortcuts, but this feature does not currently recognize keys correctly (ubuntu9.04,guake! 0.3.1; in the new guake! 0.4.0, this issue has been corrected). So we have to use circuitous tactics. Before you go to the next step, make sure you have the configuration Editor for Gnome installed. The Configuration editor is available in Ubuntu's software repository and can be installed directly from [applications] [Add/Remove].

Let Guake start automatically with the system

Navigate to [System] [preferences] [Start Program] open ' launcher Preferences ' program, click the ' Add ' button, fill in the popup window with the program name, commands and comments, the command must not be wrong (can be the program name Guake, can also be the absolute path of the command such as/usr/bin/guake, It is recommended to use the former), others can be filled in casually. Please see:

This will start the boot, the boot directly by F12 can be used. Convenient, concise, atmosphere, I believe you will also fall in love with this terminal!

Guake Terminal──linux under the perfect and handsome terminal