Guake Terminal

Now it has happened. With updating some older systems and changes in the GUI the old Yakuake drop-down terminal stopped working reliable. What a bummer.

With Cinnamon the refreshing of the terminal didn’t work that accurate any more, so that sometimes I either couldn’t see what the current screen in screen was (he,he,he) or I just had to guess what was going on there. In total: The application has become useless for me.

Just a few seconds searching brought up Guake as alternative for Gnome (Since Yakuake has always been for KDE). Installation took another second. Configuration two more. Compared to Yakuake the configuration is quite simple and just limited to a hand-full of options - which frankly is enough IMHO. But I couldn’t use my old Scroll-Lock key for opening and closing the terminal. Guake doesn’t seem to recognize it. I guess I have to learn to get used to <F12> then.

PS: If you’re not happy with Yakuake or Guake either, you might wanna try out Tilda then.