The Yakuake Drop-Down Terminal For KDE Plasma DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Chulito
Hey Distrohuggers,
What an amazing time to be alive, and be a computer-nerd !
Fedora 34 Beta is just eleven days way. Although there are likely numerous bugs, there is only one blocker bug, related to the latest systemd.
In the present state of the beta-release, one will find numerous packages that are release-candidate quality, and also beta-version such as the entire Gnome 40 stack. I think maybe many of the Gnome extensions for Gnome 40 are not ready. But KDE is allegedly looking very very good. I am surprised some of the stuff they are still tweaking at this stage, like their Anaconda installer. And they are still updating packages like games that don't cause any headaches. I believe many of the Gnome 40 packages are in a third or fourth interation of the Gnome 40 Beta stack. For those of you confused about Gnome 40, it is really just Gnome 3.39, rebadged, to use a new numerical system, but the amount of change is one of the largest since Gnome 3 detoured from Gnome 2.
Most of the new stuff is being heavily tested for their November release of Fedora 35, so only things that are safe to update right now are sent back to Fedora 34. Feel free to correct me.
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Hey Distrohuggers,
What an amazing time to be alive, and be a computer-nerd !
Fedora 34 Beta is just eleven days way. Although there are likely numerous bugs, there is only one blocker bug, related to the latest systemd.
In the present state of the beta-release, one will find numerous packages that are release-candidate quality, and also beta-version such as the entire Gnome 40 stack. I think maybe many of the Gnome extensions for Gnome 40 are not ready. But KDE is allegedly looking very very good. I am surprised some of the stuff they are still tweaking at this stage, like their Anaconda installer. And they are still updating packages like games that don't cause any headaches. I believe many of the Gnome 40 packages are in a third or fourth interation of the Gnome 40 Beta stack. For those of you confused about Gnome 40, it is really just Gnome 3.39, rebadged, to use a new numerical system, but the amount of change is one of the largest since Gnome 3 detoured from Gnome 2.
Most of the new stuff is being heavily tested for their November release of Fedora 35, so only things that are safe to update right now are sent back to Fedora 34. Feel free to correct me.
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Joe
20 year KDE user here. I had been using Yakuake since it first came out on KDE 3.?. Before it was part of KDE. Because it is based on Konsole it also shares Konsoles limitations with double spaced characters which especially can effect things like large color emoji and glyphs like in lsd or ranger or a file manager in VIM. In forum one Yakuake dev said issue can not be fixed without major rewrite. I like the drop down interface and Guake also has major limitations so I use Alacritty and use the drawer script from lharding github. Not as clean but works. Made hotkey.
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20 year KDE user here. I had been using Yakuake since it first came out on KDE 3.?. Before it was part of KDE. Because it is based on Konsole it also shares Konsoles limitations with double spaced characters which especially can effect things like large color emoji and glyphs like in lsd or ranger or a file manager in VIM. In forum one Yakuake dev said issue can not be fixed without major rewrite. I like the drop down interface and Guake also has major limitations so I use Alacritty and use the drawer script from lharding github. Not as clean but works. Made hotkey.
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DarkRanger919
i used the gnome equivalent to yakuake when i was learning linux on PopOS. A Popup terminal is absolutely useful for running a few commands and then hiding it again. Really cool to copy a command from a site, hit a key and paste it into a terminal. I think the terminal keeps running the the background so whatever is going on there can be pulled up anywhere and quickly. These days, i just prefer using the terminal shortcut and setting the terminal up on a specific system monitor desktop.
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i used the gnome equivalent to yakuake when i was learning linux on PopOS. A Popup terminal is absolutely useful for running a few commands and then hiding it again. Really cool to copy a command from a site, hit a key and paste it into a terminal. I think the terminal keeps running the the background so whatever is going on there can be pulled up anywhere and quickly. These days, i just prefer using the terminal shortcut and setting the terminal up on a specific system monitor desktop.
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CyborgZeta
Near the end of my 3 month run with Kubuntu and Plasma, I switched to using Yakuake. For some reason, Konsole was bugged and would never work with any keyboard shortcut I assigned it. So I discovered Yakuake and switched to using that, since it worked with shortcuts. Frankly, Plasma had a lot of little bugs here and there that eventually just caused me to switch back to Xfce.
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Near the end of my 3 month run with Kubuntu and Plasma, I switched to using Yakuake. For some reason, Konsole was bugged and would never work with any keyboard shortcut I assigned it. So I discovered Yakuake and switched to using that, since it worked with shortcuts. Frankly, Plasma had a lot of little bugs here and there that eventually just caused me to switch back to Xfce.
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Dusan
I did use Yakuake a lot when I was on Plasma. I had a lot of functionalities built in to my scripts, like extending when task is done and such. Also used theme with thinner decorations. Good app but as DT said it is not as useful on tiling wm. I also liked Kate and Dolphin but I hate number of dependencies required for them.
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I did use Yakuake a lot when I was on Plasma. I had a lot of functionalities built in to my scripts, like extending when task is done and such. Also used theme with thinner decorations. Good app but as DT said it is not as useful on tiling wm. I also liked Kate and Dolphin but I hate number of dependencies required for them.
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Alexander
I got used to Yakuake pretty quickly and now I can't imagine interacting with Linux terminal in my Kubuntu without this piece of art. Switched to Yakuake from Alacritty and I'm happy with it. Lack of man page is not a problem as configuration is done intuitively via GUI.
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I got used to Yakuake pretty quickly and now I can't imagine interacting with Linux terminal in my Kubuntu without this piece of art. Switched to Yakuake from Alacritty and I'm happy with it. Lack of man page is not a problem as configuration is done intuitively via GUI.
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Lawrence
4:21 I doubt it. I think it is just being interpreted the same as CTRL-D in sending an EOF to the shell.
To verify this, try typing a few spaces (without a RETURN) and then hitting CTRL-SHIFT-D. If this has no effect, then it is the same as CTRL-D.
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4:21 I doubt it. I think it is just being interpreted the same as CTRL-D in sending an EOF to the shell.
To verify this, try typing a few spaces (without a RETURN) and then hitting CTRL-SHIFT-D. If this has no effect, then it is the same as CTRL-D.
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Austin
Yakuake got me into drop down terminals. As cinnamon user though I was forced to find a GDK terminal. I started with guake but eventually got tired of it not using text files for it-s config and settled on tilda
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Yakuake got me into drop down terminals. As cinnamon user though I was forced to find a GDK terminal. I started with guake but eventually got tired of it not using text files for it-s config and settled on tilda
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jonny777bike
Thankyou for reviewing Yakuake. I've been using my Mac ssh to my raspberry pi with iterm2. I'll have to try out Yakuake on my Debian computer. Hopefully it has a lot of features like iterm2 for the mac.
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Thankyou for reviewing Yakuake. I've been using my Mac ssh to my raspberry pi with iterm2. I'll have to try out Yakuake on my Debian computer. Hopefully it has a lot of features like iterm2 for the mac.
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Lawrence
4:06 Interesting. Konsole itself has changed the tab-reordering shortcuts to CTRL-ALT-- and CTRL-ALT--. This is because CTRL-SHIFT-- and CTRL-SHIFT-- are now used to move between panes in a split view.
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4:06 Interesting. Konsole itself has changed the tab-reordering shortcuts to CTRL-ALT-- and CTRL-ALT--. This is because CTRL-SHIFT-- and CTRL-SHIFT-- are now used to move between panes in a split view.
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