guake
TLDR
Toggle Guake visibility
SYNOPSIS
guake [options]
DESCRIPTION
guake is a drop-down terminal for GNOME that provides quick access to a terminal by pressing a hotkey (F12 by default). The terminal slides down from the top of the screen like a heads-up display, inspired by the console in Quake games.
Features include tabbed interface, transparency, custom colors, and persistent sessions across toggle operations. The terminal stays resident in memory for instant access.
Configuration is available through the preferences dialog or gsettings.
PARAMETERS
-t, --toggle-visibility
Toggle visibility from command line-n, --new-tab DIR
Add new tab, optionally with working directory-s, --select-tab INDEX
Select tab by index-e, --execute-command CMD
Execute command in the terminal-r, --rename-tab NAME
Rename current tab--show-preferences
Open preferences window-q, --quit
Quit Guake
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
F12 - Toggle visibility
F11 - Toggle fullscreen
Ctrl+Shift+T - New tab
Ctrl+Shift+W - Close tab
Ctrl+PageUp/PageDown - Navigate tabs
CAVEATS
Works best with compositing enabled. May have issues on some window managers. Conflicts with other applications using F12. Requires GTK and VTE libraries.
HISTORY
guake was inspired by the drop-down console in id Software's Quake game and similar terminals like Yakuake (KDE) and Tilda. It was first released around 2007 for the GNOME desktop environment.
SEE ALSO
yakuake(1), tilda(1), gnome-terminal(1)
