Guake

Infobox_Software
name = Guake


caption = Guake on Debian Sid
developer = Gabriel Falcão & Lincoln de Sousa
latest_release_version = 0.3.1
latest_release_date = July 25, 2008
operating_system = Linux
genre = Terminal Emulator
license = GPL
website = [http://www.guake-terminal.org/ guake-terminal.org]

Guake is a drop-down terminal for Gnome Desktop Environment, so you just need to press a key to invoke him, and press again to hide. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again.Guake follows the same line of Yakuake and Tilda, but it's an attempt to meld the best of them into a single GTK-based application. Guake has been written from scratch. [http://www.guake-terminal.org/project]

Running Guake is faster than launching a new terminal with a keyboard shortcut because the program is already loaded into memory, and so can be useful to people who frequently find themselves opening and closing terminals for odd tasks.

See also

*aterm
*Eterm
*rxvt
*xterm
*Konsole
*Tilda
*Kuake - A former Yakuake project under KDE
*Yakuake - Yet Another Kuake

External links

http://www.guake-terminal.org/