Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome
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Guake no longer showing desktop when opening
It used to show the desktop as a background when I open it, but for some reason it's just overlying (so the top most window is now the background). Is there a setting somewhere to prevent this?
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How can I enable history completion by program in terminator as guake has it?
In guake I can type ls UP-ARROW and it will show ls /home/blah for example. In terminator using up arrow after typing ls just brings me to the command I entered prior. Is there any way to enable this ...
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Guake goes over the menubar in Xubuntu 12.04.02
I have the following problem when using guake:
The menubar of Xubuntu is gone when opening guake, normally guake will open directly under the menubar, but not this time.
I am running Xubuntu ...
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Guake terminal has space left at the top
When starting the Guake terminal in 13.04, there is a space of 1-2 cms left at the top. i.e THe guake terminal top border is 1-2 cms below the screen top edge.
How can I fix this as it was working ...
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Guake terminal appearance like a normal terminal?
I love how the normal terminal looks on Ubuntu.
I recently installed Guake and the Guake terminal is pretty simple (ugly): white on black with a simple font. Furthermore it's inconsistent with other ...
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guake terminal cuts off at the right
Is there a way to keep the guake terminal from cutting off text at the far right?
At the edge of the terminal I have the words elevator that and on the right all I see is elevato and continuing on ...
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How can I get guake to start?
When I try to start guake it fails and I get the following error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/guake", line 1422, in <module>
if not main():
File ...
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Annoying autorenaming in Guake
I love Guake drop-down terminal, but it has an annoying issue. When I use many tabs, I hate when the tab names rename each time I execute a command or navigate in one of them. I want to rename any tab ...
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Why does the Unity panel appear on top my Guake window?
I recently installed Guake and it was working fine, but, after running CompizConfig Settings Manager, first the transparent background stopped working (windows behind it showing cut off) and then it ...
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How can I get a slide-in effect for Guake under 12.10?
Evidently, in earlier releases of Ubuntu, an animation add-on plugin for Compiz called Skewer could be tweaked to get a slide-in/slide-out effect for opening and closing Windows. Alas, I discovered ...
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How to change Guake cursor from block to I-Beam?
As the title says, I want to change the cursor of Guake to I-Beam (the vertical line). I find block cursor to be confusing sometimes. I looked into the preferences but unfortunately there is no option ...
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Text selection CTRL+SHIFT+Cursor Keys in shell?
I'm using guake and zsh and I'd like to use Ctrl+Shift+Arrows to select word-by-word, Ctrl+Arrows to jump around words, Shift+Arrows to select char-by-char in terminal. This is working as expected in ...
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Ctrl + R alternative for Guake
I have been a heavy user of reverse-search-history( Ctrl+R ) functionality in gnome-terminal(Default terminal client in Ubuntu). Recently I started using Guake drop-down terminal in my system. Loved ...
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Overlay text editor?
I find myself often taking quick notes. E.g. jotting down what files I have edited etc, or a quick reminder.
For this I just have a gedit window open to which I alt + tab, and then apply "always on ...
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How do I set preferences for the Guake Terminal?
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 ...
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Guake and gnome-terminal $PATH
Most of the time I use Guake as terminal emulator. Today I wanted to start a program from gnome-terminal and it tells me that it's not installed currently, although I ran the program a minute ago on ...
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Terminal emulator left-click to open link
So I've been trying to get back to using Linux as my primary OS. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome 3. I've tried multiple terminal emulators, but they all seem to have a common failing: you need to ...
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How do I make terminator emulator appear and disappear like guake?
I am using terminator 0.96 as terminal emulator. How can I make it run in the background and make it appear/disappear like guake terminal (i.e. using a shortcut key).
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Wierd window behavoiur after installing unity web apps preview [closed]
I recently added the ppa for unity webapps preview and now i'm experiencing some strange behaviour regarding certaain apps. For example whenever i start GIMP or chromium now, their icons never show up ...
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How to open directory in Guake from Nautilus
In Nautilus, I have upon right-clicking a directory, the option to open a Terminal with the prompt in the selected directory. I think this is very handy and I use it a lot.
Now I would like to use ...
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How to make scripts run in Guake terminal instead of normal terminal?
I have installed Guake terminal and I find it amazing. I have many scripts added as .desktop files in launcher.
Now I want these scripts to run in the Guake terminal instead of opening in the normal ...
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How to add Guake to the Unity top Bar?
I am using Guake in Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit ,is there any way i can put it on the Unity top Panel .
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Guake Doesn't Start When Session Starts
I've Ubuntu 12.04 installed.
I've added guake to startup applications but it doesn't work. All programs listed in startup application are working except guake. What should I do?
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Quake-style terminal with splitting in Gnome other than Yakuake
The most common Quake-style terminal in Gnome seem to be Guake and Tilda, but they can't split to show several shells in single tab like Yakuake can. Is there any alternative which can do so?
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Maintain terminal session after reboot?
I recently installed and started using guake terminal. I really enjoy the way it keeps terminal sessions active after closing the window, however whenever I reboot I have to rerun some of the tabs ...
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Guake bind to XF86Search
I want to bind my mouses XF86Search button to toggle/open the Guake terminal (it's the F12 key by default). So while I was running Ubuntu 10.04 this was working out of the box...I just had to install ...
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How to set Guake as preferred terminal emulator for “Run in Terminal”?
I've recently installed Guake and like it a lot. I'd like to set it as my preferred terminal application. That is, when I right-click on a bash script file, click "Open", and choose "Run in Terminal", ...
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How do I get Guake(terminal) to report the correct terminal?
I've been using Guake on my laptop and my desktop and everything has been fine until I recently bought a new HD and did a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.10.
I installed Guake and it works fine except for ...
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Script for opening tabs in Guake terminal
I am using this script with gnome terminal:
#!/bin/sh
gnome-terminal --tab --title="1" --command="ssh 1" \
--tab --title="2" --command="ssh 2" \
--tab --title="3" --command="ssh 3" \
--tab ...
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Tilda - Can I make it close on lose focus?
Can I make Tilda (or any window for that matter) close on lose focus?
I like Tilda better than Guake but I like the close on lose focus of Guake setting.
Is there a Compiz setting I've forgotten ...
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Guake terminal showing up wrong in Unity
It seems Guake terminal is not aware of the Unity sidebar being hidden. Even when the sidebar is hidden, it still shows with a left offset that is based on the width of the sidebar.
Additionally, the ...
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Bash command history not working
The command history between sessions is not getting saved. I'm using guake and the history for the session is working fine.
I noticed that .bash_history had some commands I executed in sudo -s mode ...
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Reliable alert dialogs from the shell
I'd like to have a message pop up in response to various system events, mostly in order to be able to set reminders for myself from a shell session. There are a few ways to do this; zenity seems to ...
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Can I change the name of the guake tab to show the current command?
I use guake very heavily, and ssh into more than 3 computers at any point in time. I also have daemons running on some tabs (terminals). What I want to know, Is it possible to have the name of the ...
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guake with zsh doesn't start
I changed guake to use /bin/zsh from /bin/bash. now it doesnt start. by start, i mean that when click the shortcut key, guake just pops up for a second, and then disappears. I changed the default ...
