Comments on: Cool and fun: screen-vs inside Yakuake

By: A companion for the CLI « Motho ke motho ka botho

A companion for the CLI « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:33:38 +0000

[...] That’s CLICompanion under Arch, and probably one of the coolest tools for Xorg-plus-CLI I’ve seen in a while. At least since screen-plus-yakuake. [...]

By: Returning to Musca « Motho ke motho ka botho

Returning to Musca « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:37:35 +0000

[...] Arch Linux Leave a Comment This might look like it’s the result of my run-in with Yakuake earlier this week, but I’m afraid it’s part of a larger, more dangerous trend — the circular motion [...]

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:28:42 +0000

tilda is also a nice drop down terminal without the KDE depends, although it has some Gnome depends.

By: daniel

daniel — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:00:27 +0000

Quick Tip:

Try the “Scroll Lock”-Key or “Break”-Key (depending on Keyboardlayout) as activator for yakuake. This key is easy to hit and vitually never used (in my case, it is the most often used key)

Daniel

By: ijanos

ijanos — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:36:40 +0000

I’ve been using yeahconsole with urxvt + screen in openbox for a while now
I start it with this line:
yeahconsole -e screen -d -RR yeah &
so it will always attach to the same screen session (named yeah) after accidental or planned restarts of the X server.

my yeahconsole settings:
!—YeahConsole—
yeahconsole*term: urxvtc
yeahconsole*scrollBar: false
yeahconsole*restart: 1
yeahconsole*handleWidth: 1
yeahconsole*consoleHeight: 40
yeahconsole*aniDelay: 0
yeahconsole*stepSize: 25
yeahconsole*screenWidth: 1200
yeahconsole*yOffset: 16
yeahconsole*xOffset: 83
yeahconsole*toggleKey: none+F12

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:38:38 +0000

Almost forgot if you need a terminal emulator that supports “multiple terminal instances” without installing KDE/Gnome dependencies then urxvt is worth a look, the built in tabbed pearl extension does the job (I prefer to use GNU Screen hence the lack of scroll bar in my yeahconsole config).

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:28:40 +0000

I’ll give a thumbs up for yeahconsole. The really nice feature is that it is a terminal emulator wrapper that wraps round pretty much any terminal emulator (I use it to wrap round urxvt). This allows the user to keep on using their favourite terminal emulator with its carefully crafted custom configuration.

Below is my .Xdefults setup for yeahconsole (all other config options are inherited from urxvt but could be overridden here if one so wished)

!!yeahconsole setup
yeahconsole*term: urxvtc
yeahconsole*consoleHeight: 21
yeahconsole*toggleKey: None+F12
yeahconsole*keyFull: Alt+F11
yeahconsole*aniDelay: 40
yeahconsole*stepSize: 1
yeahconsole*handleColor: cyan
yeahconsole*borderLess: true
yeahconsole*scrollBar_right: false
yeahconsole*scrollBar: false
yeahconsole*colorBDMode: on
yeahconsole*colorULMode: on

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:51:31 +0000

You could try stjerm, which is extremely similar to Yakuake but without the KDE deps. Another similar project is yeahconsole, though I’ve not kept with yeahconsole for long because it doesn’t support hiding when the terminal window loses focus