JLP’s Blog

I couple of days ago my friend Boris told me about a handy little application YaKuake. It’s a terminal emulator for KDE very similar to Konsole. What makes it different is that it is normally hidden from the view, even while running. It doesn’t even clutter the taskbar. When you need the console you simply press F12 key (configurable) and YaKuake console drops down from the top of the screen, much like the console in games like Quake. In addition to other Konsole settings you can set the size and position of YaKuake window and the animation speed of showing and hidding it. YaKuake hides when you press the access key for the second time or when it loses focus. It sure would be great to have something like this by default in KDE 4. To see how YaKuake looks check out this screenshot. If you would like to try it out, go and download YaKuake.

Tags: console, consoles, terminal, terminals, open source, free software, linux, kde