![]() In this post I am going to really quickly step through what I did to set Yakuake up Install Yakuake It supports tabs, split views, and importantly it has a D-Bus integration allows it to be controlled via the command line and potentially launched with a custom terminal configuration. Yakuake is a KDE terminal built on KConsole, KDE’s default terminal, and modelled on Guake, a similar terminal for Gnome. I wasn’t totally taken with Tilda but that did lead me to Yakuake. The idea of pulling up a terminal either in response to a key or a mouse gesture appeals a lot over clicking on a icon or shuffling through windows to find my terminal session. I liked the drop in/drop out feel of a “quake” terminal a lot. ![]() As part of this process I tried out the Gnome terminals, even veritable XTerm, Terminator and Tilix amongst others.Īs I’d never used a “quake”-style dropdown terminal, I also looked at Tilda. I’m pretty picky about UI/UX and have some specific layouts I want like split windows and multi-tabs. I spend a lot of my life in one and on OS X I really only had time for iTerm2. Naturally, I also spent in an inordinate amount of time looking at terminals. I eventually settled on KDE’s Plasma (don’t me), of which the new 5.13 release is very shiny. In the great Linuxification of 2018 I played around with a bunch of desktops.
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