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To display list of all available options, type {{ic|guake --help}}. | To display list of all available options, type {{ic|guake --help}}. | ||
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+ | * copying the below example into a file like {{ic|guake-init.sh}} making it executable and running that file instead of guake | ||
+ | * right clicking on {{ic|Guake Terminal > Preferences > General}} and adding the path to the {{ic|guake-init.sh}} script in the "Path to script executed on Guake start:" section while making certain to comment out {{ic|/usr/bin/guake &}} from the script below | ||
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+ | The second option is preferable if you want the script to run regardless of how guake is started and you can still instruct guake not to run the script with {{ic|guake --no-startup-script}} if needed. | ||
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Revision as of 17:44, 17 February 2017
Guake is a top-down terminal for GNOME (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake).
Contents
Installation
Install guake, available in the official repositories.
Usage
Once installed, you can start Guake from the terminal with:
$ guake
After guake has started you can right click on the interface and select Preferences to change the hotkey to drop the terminal automatically, by default it is set to F12
.
Also, you can adjust many of the Guake preferences with gconf-editor tool under apps > guake. If it's not enough for you, you are always free to copy the guake executable (/usr/bin/guake
) to /usr/local/bin/guake
and edit it in text editor, since it's just a Python script. Remember to make the file executable.
Autostartup
You may want Guake to load on starting up Desktop Environment. To do this, you need to
# cp /usr/share/applications/guake.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/
See Autostarting for more info.
Guake scripting
Like Yakuake, Guake allows to control itself at runtime by sending the D-Bus messages. Thus it can be used to start Guake in a user defined session. You can create tabs, assign names for them and also ask to run any specific command in any opened tab or just to show/hide Guake window, manually in a terminal or by creating a custom script for it.
Example of such a script is given below this section.
You can use guake executable itself to send D-Bus messages. Here is the list of available options you may be interested in:
-t
,--toggle-visibility
— toggle the visibility of the terminal window. Actually, you can just typeguake
, and it will toggle the visibility of already running instance.-f
,--fullscreen
— put Guake to fullscreen mode.--show
— show Guake main window.--hide
— hide Guake main window.-n CUR_DIR
,--new-tab=CUR_DIR
— create new tab and select it. Value ofCUR_DIR
used to set a current directory for the tab, if specified.-s INDEX
,--select-tab=INDEX
— select tab with indexINDEX
. Tab indexes are started with 0.-g
,--selected-tab
— print index of currently selected tab.-e CMD
,--execute-command=CMD
— execute an arbitrary commandCMD
in the selected tab.-i INDEX
,--tab-index=INDEX
— used with--rename-tab
to specify indexINDEX
of a tab to rename. Default value is 0.--rename-tab=TITLE
— set the tab name toTITLE
. You can reset tab title to default value by passing a single dash ("-"
). Use-i
option to specify which tab to rename.--bgcolor=RGB
— set the hexadecimal (#rrggbb
) background colorRGB
of the selected tab.--fgcolor=RGB
— set the hexadecimal (#rrggbb
) foreground colorRGB
of the selected tab.-r TITLE
,--rename-current-tab=TITLE
— same as--rename-tab
, but renames the currently selected tab.-q
,--quit
— shutdown running Guake instance.
Multiple options may be combined in a single call. If there's no guake instance running, all of the options specified will be applied to the newly created instance.
To display list of all available options, type guake --help
.
There are 2 ways of starting guake while applying these scripts
- copying the below example into a file like
guake-init.sh
making it executable and running that file instead of guake - right clicking on
Guake Terminal > Preferences > General
and adding the path to theguake-init.sh
script in the "Path to script executed on Guake start:" section while making certain to comment out/usr/bin/guake &
from the script below
The second option is preferable if you want the script to run regardless of how guake is started and you can still instruct guake not to run the script with guake --no-startup-script
if needed.
Example:
#!/bin/bash /usr/bin/guake & sleep 5 # let main guake process start and initialize D-Bus session # adjust tab which was opened by default guake --rename-tab="iotop" --execute="/usr/bin/iotop" # create new tab, start bash session in it guake --new-tab --execute="/usr/bin/bash" # and then execute htop, renaming the tab to "htop" guake --execute="/usr/bin/htop" --rename-current-tab="htop" # ... guake --new-tab --execute="/usr/bin/bash" guake --execute="/usr/bin/atop" --rename-current-tab="atop" guake --new-tab --execute="/usr/bin/bash" guake --execute="~/.iptables.sh" --rename-current-tab="iptables -nvL" guake --new-tab --execute="/usr/bin/bash" guake --execute="/usr/bin/journalctl --follow --full" --rename-current-tab="journalctl" guake --new-tab --execute="/usr/bin/bash" guake --execute="/usr/bin/irssi" --rename-current-tab="irssi" guake --new-tab --execute="/usr/bin/bash" guake --execute="/usr/bin/sudo -i" --rename-current-tab="rootshell0" guake --new-tab --execute="/usr/bin/bash" guake --execute="/usr/bin/sudo -i" --rename-current-tab="rootshell1" guake --new-tab --execute="/usr/bin/bash" guake --rename-current-tab="shell0" guake --new-tab --execute="/usr/bin/bash" guake --rename-current-tab="shell1"
Notice than we should wait some time calling sleep to avoid race conditions between running instances.
Using Guake on multiple monitors
There are two GConf options allowing you to change the screen on which Guake window will appear:
/apps/guake/general/display_n
— display to appear on if themouse_display
option is not set. If this is set to an invalid value (as in the case of removing a screen from a system), the invalid value is automatically updated to the current primary screen.
/apps/guake/general/mouse_display
— appear on the mouse display. This overrides any setting indisplay_n
.
Use some tool like gconf-editor to edit GConf options.
Throubleshooting
'Ctrl' keybind problem
As of guake 0.4.2-7 there has been a noted bug affecting multiple users concerning the use of the Ctrl
key to toggle Guake window visibility (i.e. users that setup Ctrl+Shift+z
to open the guake console are able to open it by just pressing Shift+z
, independent on whether Ctrl
key has been pressed).
To solve the problem you should manually fix the value of the GConf key /apps/guake/keybindings/global/show_hide
. Open a gconf-editor, navigate to apps > guake > keybindings > global > show_hide and replace <Primary>
with <Control>
.
In Floating WM
If you are using Tilda and a floating WM, you may find out that you can use class string "Tilda" to set the window keep floating. But that Guake's WM_CLASS(STRING)'s out put is "Main.py", so you should use "Main.py" to do this. For example, in i3wm, add this to your .i3/config:
for_window [class="Main.py"] floating enable
See also
- man guake(1) on die.net