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Con As with all dropdown terminals, it's great at what it does - but isn't great when you want to go from having it large to having side by side; but you just launch the regular terminal for that anyway.
Con Does not boot with the system by default, although you can simply add it to the autostart apps
After (re)booting the system, Guake does not boot automatically. You need to open the application and then press the key to make it drop down which is a bit annoying when you want to get started quickly and don't want to press two different keys just to open the terminal.
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Recommendations
Guake
Recommended 3 years ago
Guake is great for my use-case. = scripted start-up. = F12, F11[fullscreen], tabs=hosts[via ssh]. = splits. My start-up script, start with a few screens open: BEGIN guake-init.sh guake & sleep 9 tab 0 guake -r "dm" -e "sudo dmesg -Tw" sleep 0.5 tab 1 guake -n -e "/usr/bin/...
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Tabs supportPro
CustomizablePro
Available in many popular distro repositoriesPro
Drop-down terminalPro
Supports transparencyPro
Shortcut key F12 can be used to togglePro
Hotkey supportGuake
Recommended 4 years ago
I replaced Yakuake with Guake even on KDE. Although Konsole is excellent as a windowed terminal, Guake is faster to swing down. IT has plenty of excellent colour schemes, and if you like to copy one, it's easy enough to use 'gpick' to copy and enter the colours yourself - so mine matches my teal...
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Tabs supportPro
Drop-down terminalPro
Supports transparencyCon
As with all dropdown terminals, it's great at what it does - but isn't great when you want to go from having it large to having side by side; but you just launch the regular terminal for that anyway.Guake
Recommended 4 years ago
Simple, responsive and has enough customizations to for good look and feel.
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Pro Extremely customizable
Guake's appearance is very customizable: from the transparency to the width and height of the window. You can also choose which key to use for toggling the terminal window.