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Episode: 790
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Title: HPR0790: guake a drop-down terminal emulator
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0790/hpr0790.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-08 02:31:46
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Hello, this is Diablo Marcus, recording an episode for Hacker Public Radio.
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I'm going to be recording this episode on Gwake as in Golf Uniform Alpha Kilo Echo.
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And that's the drop-down terminal emulator for the Gnome desktop.
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There's another one called Yakuake, or believe it's high-pronouncing,
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it could be Yakuake, or whatever else you want to say, for the KDE Self Recompilation.
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And that's spelled Yankee Alpha Kilo Uniform Alpha Kilo Echo.
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And they're both drop-down terminal emulators, so if that's hard to envision for you,
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basically what it is, you press a button, in my case, F12 to drop-down Gwake,
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and it falls from the top of the screen, kind of like those old games in Quake,
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the first person shooter, which I'm sure many of us geeks have known and loved,
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but it allows you to edit and use the terminal quickly,
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and then hit F12 and make it disappear.
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Again, without having to advance around between virtual desktops,
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and it allows all sorts of other nifty functionality.
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For instance, you can have multiple terminal sessions in the same window
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and get between them just by pressing Ctrl, Page Up, Page Down,
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and Ctrl, Shift, T to create new terminals.
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So at the moment, I have seven terminals open in my Gwake session,
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and I'm doing all sorts of different things.
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You can configure all sorts of different options with it as well.
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For instance, it can have all the fun transparency settings,
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if you have those enabled in your desktop.
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You can change the key that makes it drop-down,
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you can make it show on top, always, or fall behind things.
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You can choose the scrollback lines, everything that a regular emulator would have,
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but you can also change the colors, do some really fun things,
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such as making it always start up as a login terminal.
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So if you use lots of different user profiles,
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you can use those inside of Gwake as well.
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Yeah, it has tight integration with the GNOME desktop,
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but I've used it on XFCE, OpenBox, lots of other things,
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and it works just fine.
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Probably pulls in some extra dependencies, so it should be aware of that at least.
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But I'd recommend trying it out,
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because it certainly can't hurt at worst you uninstall it,
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and you've seen something else.
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So if you're used to just using X term or something,
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it would definitely try out one of the other emulators.
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For what it's worth, I use Terminator as my other emulator,
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but I rarely ever open it anymore,
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unless I need something kind of on the screen,
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well, I'm doing other things,
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and don't want to have the drop-down transparent view.
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But I am not going to tell you how much time it saves me
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just to be able to hit F12 and have all my terminal sessions open,
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and then make them go away and be hidden,
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but still available if I need them.
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Yeah, I've tried out your Quake a little bit,
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and it works in Genome Fine, it works in KDE.
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Well, it integrates and kind of has a look and feel,
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but as someone who doesn't use KDE very often,
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I haven't really gotten into why your Quake might be better.
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I believe the development's a little bit slower on it,
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but I'm sure if you are used to that software,
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it's better for you.
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But I would try out both of them, see which one you like better,
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and yeah, record an opposite or hackable radio,
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because I know that Kent Helen's been looking for it,
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and if you can help them out, record a summer short like this one,
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that would be fantastic.
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This is my yearly episode, but I might even do two this year,
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it seems like we're a little short, so.
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Good luck, happy hacking.
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Thank you for listening to Hacker Public Radio.
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For more information on the show and how to contribute your own shows,
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visit hackerpublicradio.org.
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Thanks for watching.
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