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Just installed guake - terminal emulator.

How can I get to preferences to customize it?

I don't seem to have any if the normal menu's available.

I searched everything on their help site to no avail.

I use Ubuntu 11 (now Ubuntu 16 in 2016)

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  • On my system, I have an icon in the Gnome Panel for Guake, and right-clicking this icon gives me a menu that includes "Preferences", which brings up a big property page with 5 tabs. If you don't have a launcher icon for it, then you may need to use an alternate method as suggested below.
    – Marty Fried
    Sep 8, 2012 at 17:40
  • That doesn't work for me now in 2016 BUT I can right-click from anywhere in the quake terminal itself as shown in my answer below.
    – Michael Durrant
    Sep 5, 2016 at 12:37
  • Great. TBH, it's been so long I had totally forgotten about Quake. Somewhere along the way, I didn't install it and forgot it. Thanks for the reminder. :-)
    – Marty Fried
    Sep 5, 2016 at 17:22

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2016(v16.04) Update: Easiest way is to right-click from within Quake !

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Guake preferences can also be set via a separate program.

  1. Start it from the HUD:

    --> screenshot

  2. OR, press Alt+F2 and type guake-prefs and press Enter

  3. OR, open a terminal and type guake-prefs
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  • Ahhh, better than my own answer, great!
    – Michael Durrant
    Sep 8, 2012 at 18:03
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    I would like to set guake preferences by a script. Is this possible without clicking in the gui? Where does guake save it's preferences? Can I set it with gsettings or dconf in the cli? Is there a config file I can export or anything similar?
    – uloco
    Jan 17, 2017 at 15:24
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Turns out that you use Dconf Editor dconf-editor (which deprecate gnome's configuration editor) like this:

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Which can be installed with dconf-editor and found like this:

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Another alternate answer to this is

  1. Open Terminal from GUI for command line using Alt + Ctrl + T
  2. guake -p
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  • didn't work. requires me to sudo apt-get install quake even though I have it already and am using it. I am not doing the apt-get install suggested in case it messes up my current quake.
    – Michael Durrant
    Mar 14, 2015 at 12:27
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    @MichaelDurrant I think you've typed quake instead of guake
    – Taylan
    Jun 6, 2015 at 11:12

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