Guake/guake
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Drop-down terminal for GNOME
17 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 1 story, 16 comments · first 2014-05-26 · latest 2025-07-20
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…did for the last 20-22 years. I remember this being a thing when I started using Linux back then. https://github.com/Guake/guake https://babbagefiles.xyz/quake-drop-down-terminal-history/ Yakuake, Kuake (2003), etc.
comment by coolsunglasses · 2025-07-20 · in QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch -
I use calc as well, especially practical in combination with guake ( a drop-down quake style console: https://github.com/Guake/guake ).
comment by jcfrei · 2021-12-23 · in SpeedCrunch -
…continuing contributions & maintenance; and even reaping BountySource rewards for new features! https://github.com/Guake/guake/pull/1415 Really sorry for this situation. It somehow slipped through, I honestly didn't notice it happening. I…
comment by memorysafety · 2020-03-11 · in Please re-add original author to docs and license -
Twice, according to https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1703#issuecomment-5965... .
comment by JdeBP · 2020-03-10 · in Please re-add original author to docs and license -
…file was removed with the intention that the list of authors could be programmatically generated: https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1703#issuecomment-5965... I also see that Gabriel has now been credited in the project’s `README.rst`.
comment by Anthony-G · 2020-03-09 · in Please re-add original author to docs and license -
…, so AUTHORS file is generated on build. Not tracked on git. Original author is in AUTHORS file [1] https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1703#issuecomment-5965...
comment by bluesign · 2020-03-09 · in Please re-add original author to docs and license -
…aware) for some time now. A short time ago they started enforcing a keybinding, strangely. [0] [0] https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1591
comment by teekert · 2020-03-09 · in Please re-add original author to docs and license -
…while the code was growing. I found it using git blame on an old file with that notice. The commit: https://github.com/Guake/guake/commit/86b1fa8a42b99cbbb75eee...
comment by slavik81 · 2020-03-09 · in Please re-add original author to docs and license -
The license file does not seem changed https://github.com/Guake/guake/blob/master/COPYING but it did not contain his copyright notice in the first place. They seem to have had an AUTHORS file in there that according to git blame was…
comment by tastroder · 2020-03-09 · in Please re-add original author to docs and license -
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Please re-add original author to docs and licensestory by selexin · 2020-03-09 · 75 comments
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Guake is pretty killer, I'm an avid user myself. My one big issue is this bug ( https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/45 ) which has an air of the user being wrong and the terminal being fine. There are a few other nitpicks like the lack…
comment by madamelic · 2017-08-10 · in Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator -
Nice. Personally, guake is still my go to (sudo apt install guake, info at github.com/guake/guake). Can't live without it.
comment by _arvin · 2017-04-13 · in Ubuntu 17.04 Released -
Guake too https://github.com/Guake/guake
comment by jasonm23 · 2017-02-25 · in A curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins and resources -
…the guake project page[0] Guake is a dropdown terminal made for the GNOME desktop environment [0] https://github.com/Guake/guake
comment by sprayk · 2015-05-18 · in Fish shell -
There's Guake for GNOME (and Unity): https://github.com/Guake/guake/
comment by mikevm · 2014-06-11 · in KDE Ships Second Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace -
I can also recommend guake if you're using Linux: https://github.com/Guake/guake/ Edit: see other simultaneous comment :-)
comment by papaf · 2014-05-26 · in Quake-style dropdown Mintty console using AutoHotKey -
…in the most recent version, i.e. if your distro has it or if you build it from source. [1] = https://github.com/Guake/guake/ [2] = http://i.imgur.com/njoTQXe.png
comment by mclemme · 2014-05-26 · in Quake-style dropdown Mintty console using AutoHotKey