Guake, the drop-down terminal that you should already know

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Terminal emulators for Linux there are quite a few, from those that bring the desktop or the graphical environment that we are using itself to some that we can install from third parties, such as Terminator, q-terminal y Tilda. Precisely in line with Tilda we are going to talk today about a drop-down type terminal called Guake.

As with Tilda, Guake is cached at the start of the system or as soon as we open it -this will depend on our preferences and if we indicate it to Ubuntu-, in such a way that when we press a shortcut key, generally F12, which will make the terminal appear on the screen .

For those who do not know, the inspiration for this type of terminals comes straight from the video game world, since the famous Quake included a deployable console that could be used in-game by users and devs, and that used to be located on the key º. When deploying the console we could introduce tricks that made the game easier for us, and the grace was that it could be accessed at any time. Guake follow the same philosophy in terms of availability and ease of access.

Recientemente version 0.7 has been released.0, which does not bring changes that will be easily perceptible by the user, since most of it is the typical correction of errors and the expansion of the color palettes, the latter being something that we will not see unless we dedicate ourselves to dive very extensively by the app.

Regarding its installation, Andrei from WebUpd8 has created a PPA Through which we can have the latest version of Guake in Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Linux Mint 17 and Linux Mint 17.1, and that to include in our repositories we will only have to open a terminal and execute these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install guake

From Ubunlog we encourage you to pobar GuakeIt is a different way of understanding the terminal, in addition to the fact that for the users who use it often it is a way of always having a way to access the application without wasting time navigating through the system menus.


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