naxcourses.blogg.se - Guake transparency not working

Guake is drop-down in that it appears/disappears on hitting a configurable hotkey.

Preferences can be accessed via the guake-prefs program (or right-click and select ‘Preferences’ in a Guake terminal) and it comes with a lot of the usual bells and whistles such as multi-tab support, transparency etc.

This might seem trivial but it’s a relief to be able to install and more importantly, upgrade via the official repo instead of jumping through hoops for custom builds. There are packages for Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu too.

Install was as easy as ‘ pacman -S guake‘.

Some points from my initial experience with Guake:

Urban Dictionary has a more fun definition though ). If you’re wondering about the name as I was, it seems to be a take on the hugely popular computer game ‘Quake’ and is inspired by the terminal used in the game. The focus seemed more on layout management and I probably was not patient enough to explore further.Įnter Guake. I tried Terminator but could not get profiles working, or to be frank, the way I would expect profiles to work. After looking around, I was a bit disappointed with the options out there. Being able to directly install via the package manager would be a definite bonus. My needs are primarily SSH’ing to remote systems and the ability to save connections (profiles or sessions). In the process I decided to look at other options for SSH connection management (long time PACManager fan here).

I managed to trash my work VM (Arch Linux) and was forced to rebuild a new one.