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Guake terminal

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Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake). Guake is already package by a number of distribution (among them are Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu or ArchLinux).

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  • Free • Open Source

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Country of Origin

  • FR flagFrance
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Linux
  • BSD
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  1.  Dropdown terminal
  2.  Quake-style
  3.  Tabbed interface
  4.  Split tabs
  5.  Terminal-based
  6.  Built-in terminal emulation

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AdinanCenci
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Sep 21, 2021
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One click pop-up overlay terminal. Can still use half of the screen while I wait for the command to finish without needing to alt-tab.

me12345
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Nov 16, 2017
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So sweet simple and power full.

cryoff
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Oct 10, 2017
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Amazingly useful tool for everyone working constantly in linux environment

What is Guake terminal?

Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake). Guake is already package by a number of distribution (among them are Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu or ArchLinux).

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  • Developed by

    FR flagGuake Project

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 5

  • Alternatives

    40 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  578 Forks
  •  423 Open Issues
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Guake terminal, and it has gotten 132 likes

Guake terminal was added to AlternativeTo by Fd on Jul 5, 2009 and this page was last updated Nov 18, 2020. Guake terminal is sometimes referred to as Guake.