:date: 2012-03-02 10:03

.. index:: tech, linux

Guake Terminal
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Now it has happened. With updating some older systems and changes in the GUI the old `Yakuake <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuake>`__ drop-down terminal stopped working reliable. What a bummer.

With `Cinnamon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_(user_interface)>`__ 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 <http://guake.org/>`__ as alternative for :program:`Gnome` (Since :program:`Yakuake` has always been for KDE). Installation took another second. Configuration two more. Compared to :program:`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 :kbd:`Scroll-Lock` key for opening and closing the terminal. :program:`Guake` doesn't seem to recognize it. I guess I have to learn to get used to :kbd:`<F12>` then.

PS: If you're not happy with `Yakuake <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuake>`__ or :program:`Guake` either, you might wanna try out `Tilda <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilda_(software)>`__ then.