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Yakuake (Yet Another Kuake) is a drop-down terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology.

Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again.

Features

Smoothly rolls down from the top of your screen
Tabbed interface
Configurable dimensions and animation speed
Skinnable
Sophisticated DCOP / D-Bus interface
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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?
Alexey Romanov
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Yakuake skin removes settings menu

I recently installed yakuake, and tried different themes/skins (whatever the correct denomination). I choose one, but failed to notice that it removed the "button" to access the menu, so I can no longer access the settings and change anything,…
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Drop down terminal that can split gnome

I am looking for a good drop down terminal that can be split for gnome. At work I use KDE and Yakuake and it works really good but I don't really like KDE that much. I installed Yakuake in gnome and it is really buggy so I removed it and I am…
Jared Mackey
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How to change the shorcut for Paste in Yakuake?

I installed Yakuake 2.9.8 on a Unity desktop. It works quite well, except for two issues with shortcuts. I want to use Ctrl + V to paste (because Ctrl + Shift + V is already used as a global shortcut for ClipIt), but there is no shortcut for paste…
Alexey Romanov
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Problem with Super + Grave global shortcut

My goal: open Yakuake or Tilda terminal with Super + Grave (backtick, tilde, `) shortcut in Gnome. What I could achieve is only holding Super + pressing Grave twice. A little background. By default Super + Grave is a shortcut for…
Alexey Chernov
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Why can't I see the character _ while using Nano on Yakuake?

I use Gnu Nano on Yakuake to write a LaTeX-document. Then yesterday I found that I can't see the character _ on the Nano. I know that the characters are there as LaTeX renders the tex-file correctly. Is that a bug in Yakuake or Nano or is there some…
Jaakko Seppälä
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Yakuake not responding after hitting F12

I'm using Yakuake (it's a drop down terminal emulator) to manage my terminals and work in multiple terminals, switch between them... First you must launch the application and by clicking on F12 the window disappear and F12 again to appear....…
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Yakuake settings not being applied in 18.04

Yakuake doesn't apply settings from config on ubuntu 18.04, I looked around and found that there was a kde bug related to this so I also created a profile in .local/share/konsole and the settings are saved there but somehow yakuake doesn't apply the…
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Yakuake window is not auto-focused after upgrading to 22.04

I was using Ubuntu 20.04 with Yakuake dropdown terminal. The terminal opens using a keyboard shortcut, e.g. F12. On my old system, the focus was set automatically on the terminal window, so I could just hit F12 and then start typing commands. After…
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How to make any app popup/drop-down on screen (like yakuake)

I love the Yakuake console: with a single key (F12 I believe), you get a terminal that drops-down on top of any app you are currently using. Another tap on that key, the terminal goes away, and can be called again any time (with session preserved).…
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How do you get yakuake to show up when tabbing?

Given that a user is using super+tab keys to see running applications, When the overlay modal is presented, Then how do you configure yakuake to be included in the icon set. It is currently only available via a hot key. Ubuntu: 18.04
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Change the default browser in yakuake

I use yakuake as drop-down-terminal in Ubuntu 16.04. Whenever I click on a link on the console to open it in browser, it opens in the default kde-browser webbrowser-app. I tried to uninstall webbrowser-app, but that would uninstall those packages…
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Yakuake refusing to open

For some reason after the first time I restarted Yakuake seems to be absolutely dead... The F12 key now only seems to select and deselect my current application. I have tried reinstalling it from the software center, I've tried using terminal to…
Thomas Johansen
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How to install dcop?

I tried to run dcop, since my yakuake cannot be shown again in my Cinnamon, and I don't want to restart my yakuake. I found that this command can make my yakuake show again: dcop yakuake DCOPInterface slotToggleState But I got no luck running it: $…
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How to make Yakuake open always on same screen when working with multiple screens?

I am working with Yakuake and a global hotkey to quickly open and close it. However, when I have multiple monitors, Yakuake will pop up on the one monitor where the mouse pointer is currently located. To move it to a different screen, I have to…
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